Precepted

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of precept form-of, participle, past

    "For the two commended rules by him set down, whereby the axioms of sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and which the latter men have not without elegancy surnamed, the one the rule of truth because it preventeth deceit;"

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"For the two commended rules by him set down, whereby the axioms of sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and which the latter men have not without elegancy surnamed, the one the rule of truth because it preventeth deceit;"

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