What is another word for "precept"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "precept": able, absorbing, act, adage, admitted, aphorism, aphoristic, apophthegm, apothegm, ask, assumption, axiom, axiomatic, belief, byword, call, cannot, canon, case, charge, claim, code, command, common, commonplace, conclusion, corpus, create, crying, death, deficiency, demand, desiderate, desideratum, desire, destitute, dictum, direction, dispense, essential.