Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of a precept, or containing precepts.

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Examples

  • So long as no one tries to revive this as a preceptual obligation binding under the penalty of grave sin.

    Catholic Sensibility 2009

  • So long as no one tries to revive this as a preceptual obligation binding under the penalty of grave sin.

    Catholic Sensibility 2009

  • Several varieties of imaginative preceptual experience may be taken to fill in the continuum between these extremes: mistaken or illusive perceptions (imagining, for instance, that the bush seen indistinctly in the darkness is a bear), and various types of non-deceptive seeing as or seeing in (such as imagining a cloud to have the shape of a camel, weasel, or whale; seeing a Laughing Cavalier in paint on canvas; seeing someone's sadness in their eyes; or seeing the notorious duck-rabbit figure as a duck [or rabbit]).

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • to noon Feb. 10 at the Alvin Police Department, 1500 S. Gordon S.. The program covers age-related physical changes, declining preceptual skills, local driving problems and license renewal requirements.

    The Facts: News 2010

  • to noon Feb. 10 at the Alvin Police Department, 1500 S. Gordon S.. The program covers age-related physical changes, declining preceptual skills, local driving problems and license renewal requirements.

    The Facts: News 2010

  • to noon Feb. 10 at the Alvin Police Department, 1500 S. Gordon S.. The program covers age-related physical changes, declining preceptual skills, local driving problems and license renewal requirements.

    The Facts: News 2010

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