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Topic: PHILOSOPHY

Date: 1300-1400
Language: Latin
Origin: praeceptum, from praecipere 'to take beforehand, give instruction to'

precept

 noun
     
pre‧cept [countable]
formalRP a rule on which a way of thinking or behaving is based:
basic moral precepts
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