precept
noun
1 precept
Rule of personal conduct.
synonym: principle.
Roget 630:
requirement,
need,
wants,
necessities;
necessaries,
necessaries of life;
stress,
exigency,
pinch,
sine qua non,
matter of necessity;
case of need,
case of life or death.
needfulness,
essentiality,
necessity,
indispensability,
urgency.
requisition
etc.
(request)
765,
(exaction)
741;
run upon;
demand,
call for.
charge,
claim,
command,
injunction,
mandate,
order,
precept.
desideratum
etc.
(desire)
865;
want
etc.
(deficiency)
640.
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Roget 697:
precept,
direction,
instruction,
charge;
prescript,
prescription;
recipe,
receipt;
golden rule;
maxim
etc.
496.
rule,
canon,
law,
code,
corpus juris [Lat.],
lex scripta [Lat.],
act,
statute,
rubric,
stage direction,
regulation;
form,
formula,
formulary;
technicality;
canon law;
norm.
order
etc.
(command)
741.
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Roget 741:
command,
order,
ordinance,
act,
fiat,
hukm†,
bidding,
dictum,
hest†,
behest,
call,
beck,
nod.
despatch,
dispatch;
message,
direction,
injunction,
charge,
instructions;
appointment,
fixture.
demand,
exaction,
imposition,
requisition,
claim,
reclamation,
revendication†;
ultimatum
etc.
(terms)
770;
request
etc.
765;
requirement.
dictation;
dictate,
mandate;
caveat,
decree,
senatus consultum [Lat.];
precept;
prescript,
rescript;
writ,
ordination,
bull,
ex cathedra pronouncement [Lat.],
edict,
decretal†,
dispensation,
prescription,
brevet,
placit†,
ukase,
ukaz [Rus.],
firman,
hatti-sherif†,
warrant,
passport,
mittimus,
mandamus,
summons,
subpoena,
nisi prius [Lat.],
interpellation,
citation;
word,
word of command;
mot d'ordre [Fr.];
bugle call,
trumpet call;
beat of drum,
tattoo;
order of the day;
enactment
etc.
(law)
963;
plebiscite
etc.
(choice)
609.
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Roget 760:
permission,
leave;
allowance,
sufferance;
tolerance,
toleration;
liberty,
law,
license,
concession,
grace;
indulgence
etc.
(lenity)
740;
favor,
dispensation,
exemption,
release;
connivance;
vouchsafement†.
authorization,
warranty,
accordance,
admission.
permit,
warrant,
brevet,
precept,
sanction,
authority,
firman;
hukm†;
pass,
passport;
furlough,
license,
carte blanche [Fr.],
ticket of leave;
grant,
charter;
patent,
letters patent.
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Dutch: regel, gedragsregel
2 precept
A doctrine that is taught:
— He believed all the Christian precepts.
synonyms: commandment, teaching.
Dutch: les
Polish: nauka
Moby thesaurus: a belief, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, article of faith, axiom, behest, bench warrant, bidding, byword, canon, capias, catchword, caveat, charge, code, collected sayings, commandment, current saying, death warrant, decree, decretum, dictate, dictum, direction, directive, distich, doctrine, dogma, edict, epigram, expression, fiat, fieri facias, fundamental, general orders, gnome, golden saying, guide, guideline, habere facias possessionem, injunction, instruction, interdict, law, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, maxim, mittimus, moral, mot, motto, nisi prius, notice, notification, oracle, order, ordinance, phrase, pithy saying, prescript, prescription, principle, process, prohibitory injunction, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, regulation, rule, saw, saying, search warrant, sentence, sententious expression, slogan, sloka, statute, stock saying, sutra, teaching, tenet, text, ukase, unwritten law, verse, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, writ ... show more.
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