Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɹiːsɛpt/
precept (plural precepts)
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language ↗
- I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language ↗
- (legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- A rate or tax set by a precept.
- The Parish Council is financed by raising a small levy - the precept - on all residential properties within the parish.
- A rate or tax set by a precept.
- French: précepte
- German: Gebot, Vorschrift, Grundsatz
- Portuguese: preceito
- Russian: при́нцип
- Spanish: precepto
precept (precepts, present participle precepting; past and past participle precepted)
- (obsolete) To teach by precepts.
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