precept 的定义
- a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
- an injunction as to moral conduct; maxim.
- a procedural directive or rule, as for the performance of some technical operation.
- Law. a writ or warrant.a written order issued pursuant to law, as a sheriff's order for an election.
precept 近义词
law, rule of behavior, action
更多precept例句
- This study hopes to nail down the “hot zones” of consciousness—either the front or back of the brain—and how conscious thoughts or precepts are maintained over time.
- At this pivotal moment, the core precepts of our democracy are once again at risk.
- He was an autodidact intellectual who came to adhere to the precepts of Marxism as Vladimir Lenin interpreted them.
- Ironically, this is the one precept on which liberals and conservatives agree.
- You want to advocate for including a precept of Jewish law in civil or criminal law?
- Where would a justice be more likely than in Israel to run across an arguable precept.
- Many think this a precept of natural law; why not of the Constitution?
- Likewise our second precept remained beyond discussion; direct open contact with humanity.
- And explicitly, in the same connection are the various observances included in it presented in precept.
- The Ten Commandments are of perpetual obligation on all; and so is every moral precept included in them.
- A leader of men rather than a tactician or strategist, he played on the enthusiasm of his soldiers by example rather than precept.
- Both the positive precept and the statutes of the decalogue unfolded what was designed as a covenant claim.
- If he sometimes come across a precept which is perfectly clear and irrefutable, Donald does not scruple to ignore it.