precept

How To Use precept In A Sentence

• My first-ever experience with dentistry was during a preceptorship I had my senior year. First Person Singular: Barron Hall, animal dentist
• The course will present an in-depth study of the general precepts for menstruation and lochia and the precepts specific to lochia, as well as a detailed study of the chronic annulment of ablution.
• Norris divides a law into a preceptive and a punitive element. Motherly Advice
• When a Mahometan has killed a certain number of infidels, he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sins may be��the ordinary Musselman takes the precept in broader acceptation, and counts women and children as well. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
• Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
• So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war.
• The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land. The Age of the Reformation
• The names Temple and Templeman were acquired from residence near one of the preceptories of the Knights Templars, and Spittlehouse (Chapter The Romance of Names
• It was found that the plaques violated the U.S. Constitution's precepts on separation of church and state.