preceptive
adjEtymology From precept + -ive.
1
Law Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
- If it was necessary, that Christ as our surety should suffer the penalty of the law in our stead, because we have sinned; then it was also necessary that as our Surety, he should yield obedience to the preceptive part of the law also;1677, John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith:
2
instructive; didactic
- It is altogether preceptive, barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract.1810, John Quincy Adams, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory:
- Derived terms
- preceptively