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). < adj.c1485 |
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