precept
precept is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.No arts are without their precepts. Dryden.
- 2.(Law) A command in writing; a species of writ or process. Burrill. See Doctrine.
- 3.To teach by precepts. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- 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
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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