noun
Meaning 1
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Precept guides, but example draws.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
precept
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpɹiːsɛpt/
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rhymes with -iːsɛpt
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obsolete: /ˈpɹɛsɛpt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A written command, especially a demand for payment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, intransitive
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To teach (something) by precepts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 7
a doctrine that is taught
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the teachings of religion
- he believed all the Christian precepts
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: teaching, commandment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
Narrower terms: Golden Rule, mitzvah, mitsvah
noun
Meaning 8
rule of personal conduct
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: principle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rule, prescript
Narrower terms: higher law, moral principle, hypothetical imperative, caveat emptor
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipiō (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capiō (“take”).
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: предписание (predpisanie) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Bulgarian: наставление (nastavlenie) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Catalan: precepte — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Chinese Cantonese: 戒律 (gaai3 leot6) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Chinese Cantonese: 準則 /准则 (zeon2 zak1) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Czech: zásada — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Czech: maxima — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Czech: pravidlo — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Czech: poučka — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Dutch: regel — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Dutch: gedragsregel — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Dutch: principe — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Finnish: sääntö — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Finnish: ohje — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Finnish: ohjenuora — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- French: précepte — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Friulian: precet — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Georgian: პრინციპი (ṗrinciṗi) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Georgian: წესი (c̣esi) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Georgian: მცნება (mcneba) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- German: Gebot — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- German: Vorschrift — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- German: Grundsatz — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- German: Maxime — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Greek: κανόνας (kanónas) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Greek: εντολή (entolí) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Hindi: शैली (śailī) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Hindi: शील (śīl) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Hungarian: előírás — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Italian: precetto — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Latin: praeceptum — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Occitan: precèpte — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Plautdietsch: Väaschreft — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Polish: nakaz — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Polish: przepis — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Polish: zasada — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Polish: reguła — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Polish: norma — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Polish: prawidło — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Polish: przykazanie — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Portuguese: preceito — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Romanian: precept — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Russian: при́нцип (príncip) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Russian: за́поведь (zápovedʹ) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Russian: заве́т (zavét) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Sanskrit: उपदेश (upadeśa) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Spanish: precepto — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Spanish: preceptiva — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Swedish: föreskrift — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Swedish: regel — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Swedish: rättesnöre — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Tagalog: sawikain — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Thai: ศีล (sǐin) — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Turkish: ta'lim — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Turkish: ögreti — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Turkish: ta'lim buyurmak — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Vietnamese: giới luật — rule or principle governing personal conduct
- Vietnamese: chuẩn tắc — rule or principle governing personal conduct