The Only Use of
precept
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door, and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts.†
p. 88.9precepts = rules for behavior
Definition:
a rule for behavior -- especially a shared moral doctrine