1855 Southern Q. Rev. July 199 An ounce, yea, an infinitesimal of sulphur, will accomplish more than all the lining and precepting in the world.

1923 Times 29 June 11/1 No less important than rate consolidation was a reconsideration of the precepting system.

1955 Africa 25 305 The functions of each type of council and of its committees, what is involved in the preparation of annual estimates, rating, precepting, raising loans, [etc.].

1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 30 July 12 The principle of precepting is now well established.

2001 NurseWeek 12 Mar. 15/2 They usually require special refresher education and clinical precepting to return to the bedside.

1758 H. Lee Sophron I. 21 Be you as far from being offended, as I with you from going uninformed by this precepting scene.

1906 Times 18 July 8/1 The placing of a legal limit on the expenditure of the precepting bodies.

1962 L. Golding Dict. Local Govt. 310 Authorities which have no rating powers are known as precepting authorities as they issue precepts, i.e., demands on the rating authority or authorities, specifying the amount required in the £ of rateable value to meet their financial requirements. Examples of precepting authorities are county councils.., joint boards, parish councils, burial boards, river boards and port health authorities.

1991 Municipal Rev. & AMA News Jan.–Feb. 235/1 On capping the resolution said:..that Passenger Transport Authorities should become precepting authorities.

2004 Amer. Family Physician (Nexis) 15 July 247 The precepting attending, a family physician with extensive experience in HIV care, agreed with the plan.