Precept is valid Scrabble Word

Is precept a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
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7 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for PRECEPT in dictionary:

VERB:

To teach by precepts.

NOUN:

a rule of conduct
a general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought
a writ or warrant
an order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf
a rate or tax set by a precept.
rule of behaviour
rule of personal conduct
a doctrine that is taught

Words related to PRECEPT

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Words that contain PRECEPT

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How to use PRECEPT in a sentence

What he lays down as a precept, that he tries to live up to, in the way that shall win the approval of the eternal years.
And to the observance of his precept, so far as concerneth me, I shall immediately apply myself.
Regarding recitation of the Divine Office it was of counsel, and probably of precept, that is should not be from memory merely, but that the psalms should all be read.
The first precept requires us to acknowledge and worship one God, that is, to trust Him alone, which is the true faith whereby we become the sons of God.
The original of this precept was merely accidental.
But there was no law in his life, no precept in his code, whereby he could subject his young partner to the risk.
I claim for my father the merit of having been the first to recommend, both by example and precept, what Bacon would call the experimental method in education.
All that precept can teach is nothing compared with convictions of this kind.
In morals, as in art, precept is nothing, practice is everything.
His inspiration wrought by performance as well as by precept.

This is a subject which will bear line upon line and precept upon precept.
It takes in and requires obedience to every divine command, and compliance with every divine precept.
Alexander and a long whip, despite the precept and example of Mr.
Poetry he may have taught by precept, but the one extant specimen of his Muse is enough to prove that he could never have taught it by example.
Among the numberless graces that I have received this year, not the least is an understanding of how far-reaching is the precept of charity.
Yet there certainly is a restless feminine minority, who declare, both by precept and example, Family Life to be a servitude.
He was a believer in kind words and governed his players more by precept and example than by any set of rules that he laid down for their guidance.
In this single instance the successors of Caesar and Augustus were persuaded to follow the example of the former, rather than the precept of the latter.
My various reading I now digested, according to the precept and model of Mr.
Philosophy has accumulated precept upon precept, to warn us against the anticipation of future calamities.
Hungerford Pollen has quoted a royal precept which was promulgated in this year, and it plainly shows that our ancestors were becoming more refined in their tastes.
Example not precept, actions not words, are the controlling forces in moral education.
On the contrary, such a notion was implied in the Fall and Redemption, in the Sacraments, and in the universal validity of Christian doctrine and precept.
There is indeed reason in it, since every deliberate precept expresses some reflection by which impulses have been compared and modified.
Well, I must follow his example of withdrawal, if not his precept of appetite.
On the contrary, he inculcated, both by precept and example, submission to the ruling authorities.
Both by precept and example Asoka was an ardent exponent of the strenuous life.
This precept stands immediately before that, and prepares for it.
What is the special need of this precept for this age? It is neglected in our modern life.
There is no rule of life contained in the precept that a man should pursue his own happiness.

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