Preceptive

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preceptive \Pre*cep"tive\, a. [L. praeceptivus.]
     Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts;
     didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.
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           The lesson given us here is preceptive to us.


                                                    --L'Estrange.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "preceptive":
     authoritative, autodidactic, binding, canonical, coeducational,
     commanding, compelling, cultural, decretal, decretive, decretory,
     dictated, dictating, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying,
     educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory,
     formulary, hard and fast, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating,
     imperative, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory,
     jussive, lecturing, mandating, mandatory, obligating, official,
     peremptory, preaching, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive,
     propaedeutic, regulation, rubric, self-teaching, standard,
     statutory, teaching, tuitionary