Preceptive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Preceptive is an adjective meaning (law) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts.
Meaning
(law) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts.
More Meanings
- instructive; didactic
Example Sentences
It is altogether preceptive, barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract.
If it was necessary, that Christ as our surety should suffer the penalty of the law in our stead, because we have sinned; then it was also necessary that as our Surety, he should yield obedience to the preceptive part of the law also;
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preceptual, proceptive, prepositional, prelatical, propensive, presuppositional.
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