precept

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
    — Precept guides, but example draws.
  2. A written command, especially a demand for payment.
  3. An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf. UK
  4. A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected. UK
    — The Parish Council is financed by raising a small levy - the precept - on all residential properties within the parish.
动词 v.
  1. To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice. US,intransitive
  2. To teach (something) by precepts. obsolete,transitive
    — [T]he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.

词形变化

precepts plural præcept alternative,archaic precepts present,singular,third-person precepting participle,present precepted participle,past precepted past præcept alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
preceptial preceptism preceptist preceptive
相关词
preception preceptor

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipiō (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capiō (“take”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipiō (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capiō (“take”).
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