Both Uses of
precept
in
David Copperfield
- I did not fail to assure him that I would store these precepts in my mind, though indeed I had no need to do so, for, at the time, they affected me visibly.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- How much of the practice I have just reduced to precept, I owe to Agnes, I will not repeat here.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(precept) a rule for behavior -- especially a shared moral doctrine