preceptive
English
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Etymology
Adjective
preceptive (comparative more preceptive, superlative most preceptive)
- (law) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
- 1677: John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
- If it was necessary, that Christ as our surety should suffer the penalty of the law in our stead, because we have sinned; then it was also necessary that as our Surety, he should yield obedience to the preceptive part of the law also;
- 1677: John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
- instructive; didactic
- 1810: John Quincy Adams, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory
- It is altogether preceptive, barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract.
- 1810: John Quincy Adams, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory