Preceptive
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
"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;"
- 2 instructive; didactic
"It is altogether preceptive, barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract."
Example
More examples"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;"
Etymology
From precept + -ive.
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