precept
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[edit] Etymology
From Vulgar Latin praeceptum, form of praecipere (“‘to teach’”), from Latin prae (“‘pre-’”) + capere (“‘take’”).
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precept (plural precepts)
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple The Gift of Language
- I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept.
- 1891: Hale, Susan. Mexico, 80, London: T. Fisher Unwin.
- He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts, they advanced to high civilization.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple The Gift of Language
[edit] Translations
rule or principle governing personal conduct
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of ceepprt
- percept