| 单词 | preceptive | 
| 释义 | preceptiveadj. 1.  Of the nature of, relating to, or conveying a precept.  a.  Of the nature of a command, mandatory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > 			[adjective]		 preceptivec1485 mandatoryc1487 preceptory1508 commissional1528 preceptory1574 peremptory1576 imperative1577 jussory1613 commandatorya1659 commandivea1680 imperatorial1690 c1485						 (    G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys 		(2005)	 99  				The pape has power preceptiue apon thame. 1624    Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 484  				Our Sauiours words, Doe this in remembrance of me, are not Preceptiue. 1672    F. Fullwood Toleration not to be Abused: Serious Quest. 15  				The Law hath two parts..the Preceptive and the Punitive. a1729    E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity 		(1962)	 398  				Preceptive truth these darksom dayes do shame. 1786    A. Gib Καινα και Παλαια: Sacred Contempl. 28  				The penalty, as well as the preceptive tenor of that law, was sufficiently notified to him. a1832    R. Jebb Gen. Princ. Law in  Encycl. Metrop. 		(1845)	 II. 687/1  				The preceptive part is the law properly so called: it includes the whole of the commands and prohibitions of the lawgiver. 1887    Catholic World July 444  				It is a word of distinct and definite signification, constantly found in directive and preceptive rubrical laws. 1962    Amer. Speech 37 54  				An investigation of the preceptive subjunctive in Old English, used to express what ought to or should be done. 1983    Hispania 66 78/2  				A perusal of literary works would indicate marked discrepancies between actual usage and the preceptive pronouncements of the grammarians.  b.  Conveying instructions or maxims; didactic, instructive. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > 			[adjective]		 instructivea1492 preceptivea1525 instructing1561 documentalc1575 dogmatical1580 doctrinablea1586 doctrinal1597 didactical1603 didascalic1609 tutorly1611 schooling1614 indoctrinating1642 disciplinable1644 docenta1645 institutionary1646 protreptic1658 protreptical1662 dogmatic1678 educating1699 didactive1723 educativea1750 tuitive1776 educatory1792 didactic1799 instructional1801 tuitionary1816 instructionary1824 didascalara1846 teaching1853 tuitional1861 documentary1873 a1525    in  W. A. Craigie Asloan MS 		(1923)	 I. 329/2  				The law preceptive that is the ten commandementis. 1678    R. L'Estrange tr.  Epistles iv. 32 in  Seneca's Morals Abstracted 		(1679)	  				Cleanthes allows the Paranetick, or Preceptive Philosophy, to be in some sort Profitable. 1710    Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 101  				The didactick or preceptive Manner. 1792    R. Bage Man as he Is I. vii. 54  				They were accompanied with a diffusive oratory; preceptive when Lady Mary was in good humour, vituperative when she was not. 1834    Fraser's Mag. 10 41  				Denham's poetry must have been too grave and preceptive for the profligate gaiety of the habits of the monarch. 1884    Friend Dec. 297/2  				The whole treatise is preceptive and hortatory. 1927    Gleaner 		(Kingston, Jamaica)	 10 Oct. 14/3  				From the lower animal world we can learn many lessons of the greatest preceptive value to ourselves. 1993    Rev. Eng. Stud. 44 349  				Piers engages the knight in a preceptive dialogue... The personal righteousness of the working-class ploughman justifies him in instructing his social superior. ΚΠ 1684    T. Hockin Disc. God's Decrees ix. 77  				The branch..had no innate and immediate vertue to make the bitter waters sweet [at Marah], but by the preceptive use of it. Derivatives  preˈceptively adv. in a preceptive manner; as a precept or command; by precepts. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > 			[adverb]		 > by way of a precept or commandment preceptually1616 preceptively1633 peremptory1709 1633    W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies  ii. 281  				God willeth..Ceremonies, onely permissively, not præceptively. 1651    Rec. Communion §7  				In any thing that is held forth in the Word of God, as præceptively to worthy receiving necessary. a1834    S. T. Coleridge Compl. Wks. 		(1853)	 V. 517  				St. Paul nowhere speaks dogmatically or preceptively..of a soul. 1851    Biblical Repertory Jan. 132  				Neither has God determined preceptively who are to exercise power. 1963    Eng. Jrnl. 52 479/1  				Introductions to each story..focus the reader's attention on particular matters..which should be observed if the stories are to be read preceptively. 1991    Rev. Eng. Stud. 42 417  				The..Vulgaria of Whittinton embodied the more old-fashioned notion that Latin was best taught preceptively. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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