All 3 Uses
precept
in
Walden
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- Shall the respectable citizen thus gravely teach, by precept and example, the necessity of the young man's providing a certain number of superfluous glow-shoes, and umbrellas, and empty guest chambers for empty guests, before he dies?†
Chpt 1 *precept = a rule for behavior
- I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.†
Chpt 11precepts = rules for behavior
- If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself.†
Chpt 18precept = a rule for behavior
Definitions:
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(1)
(precept) a rule for behavior -- especially a shared moral doctrine
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)