Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct; an injunction; a rule. For precept must be upon precept. Isa. xxviii. 10. No arts are without their precepts. Dryden.
A command in writing; a species of writ or process. Burrill.
To teach by precepts. [Obs.] Bacon.
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