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Definition of Precepts
1. precept [n] - See also: precept
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precepts
Literary usage of Precepts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"This embraces not only a dissertation upon the dietetic precepts of Cel- sus,
preceded by a notice of his life and doctrines, but also a historical account ..."
2. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
... 45 And I will walk at liberty : for I seek thy precepts. ..."
3. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"CHAPTER VII PROVERBS AND precepts, AND MONITORY PIECES There are preserved a
number of Middle English pieces that consist of pithy utterances of comment on ..."
4. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"~^HE following Highland version of the folk-tale of the 1 "Three precepts" was
got by me in 1887 from Dr. Corbet, Beauly, and published in the original ..."
5. Seneca's Morals: By Way of Abstract. To which is Added, a Discourse, Under by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roger L'Estrange (1803)
"THE FORCE OF precepts. THERE seems to be so near an affinity betwixt wisdom,
philosophy, and good counsels, that it is rather matter of curiosity, ..."
6. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"But the precepts of Mahomet himself inculcate a more simple and rational piety :
prayer, fasting, and alms are the religious duties of a Musulman ; and he ..."
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