How to pronounce“precept”in English
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Definitions of “precept”
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
“Precept guides, but example draws.”
A written command, especially a demand for payment.
To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
To teach (something) by precepts.
“[T]he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.”
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