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preception|prɪˈsɛpʃən| [ad. L. præceptiōnem a taking beforehand, the right of receiving in advance; a preconception; a precept, an imperial rescript, n. of action f. præcipĕre: see precept n. Cf. F. préception (16th c. in Littré).] †1. A previous conception or notion; a preconception, presumption. Obs. rare.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. iii. §4 (1622) 19 Which Epicurus calleth a Præsumption, or Præception. 1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. v. v. 255 If he have no Prenotion or Preception of that he seeketh, he searcheth..as in a maze of infinitie. 2. †a. A command, precept. Obs.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy i. xviii, ‘Let him be the husband of one wife’... Leo calls these words a Preception, I did not. b. Instruction by a preceptor; tutoring. rare.
1882All Year Round XXIX. 448 The statement that he had ‘sat at the feet of the Gamebird of Birmingham’, an allusion to his preception which was not so intelligible as the rendering of other journals, ‘the Gamaliel of Birmingham’. 3. Rom. Law. The right of receiving beforehand, as a part of an inheritance before partition.
1875Poste Gaius ii. §216 Let Lucius Titius take my slave Stichus by preception (before partition). 1880Muirhead Gaius Digest 529 A legacy by preception..could in strictness be bequeathed only to one of several heirs..who was thereby authorised to take and appropriate some particular item of the inheritance before it came to be divided. |