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单词 precept
释义
preceptpre‧cept /ˈpriːsept/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINprecept
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin praeceptum, from praecipere ‘to take beforehand, give instruction to’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Accordingly, this book shines a spotlight on the Centralism precepts, and on the practices they yield.
  • And even for the prevailing types most precepts prove transitory.
  • Every question was considered in light of the King's conscience and of divine precepts.
  • He took words and ideas seriously and felt that having accepted a moral precept he had to live it.
  • In other words we would have been better off cashing the precept and keeping the money under the mattress.
  • Slaveholders fostered misery amongst their slaves; they clearly did not act upon the precept of loving their neighbours.
  • Use of the equation is based on the precept that particles are dominantly spheres and are of identical densities.
  • When one embraces the precepts of Centralism it can lead in no other direction than organizing big.
word sets
WORD SETS
causation, nouncosmogony, noundeconstruction, noundeterminism, noundialectic, nounexistentialism, nounfree will, nounhumanism, nounhypothesis, nounidealism, nouninduction, nouninductive, adjectivelateral thinking, nounMarxism, nounmaterialism, nounmetaphysical, adjectivemetaphysics, nounnihilism, nounontology, nounphilosopher, nounphilosophical, adjectivephilosophize, verbpositivism, nounpostulate, nounprecept, nounsolipsism, nounsyllogism, nounTao, nounTaoism, nounthinker, nounthought, nountranscendentalism, nounutilitarian, adjectiveutilitarianism, nounyang, nounyin, nounyin and yang, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Without imperial authority to reinforce its moral precepts, it increasingly relied on high-minded exhortation.· He took words and ideas seriously and felt that having accepted a moral precept he had to live it.· And consequently their history consisted of events and lives which carried moral and political precept: of incidents loaded with an interpretation.
formal a rule on which a way of thinking or behaving is based:  basic moral precepts
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