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Preceptive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    instructive; didactic

    "It is altogether preceptive, barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract."

Etymology

From precept + -ive.

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