precepted

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A form of precept — A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of precept

    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;

    1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Scientiarum
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “precepted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precepted.

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