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Precept
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An order, writ, warrant, or process. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding that officer or those officers to do some act within the scope of their powers. Rule imposing a standard of conduct or action.

In English Law, the direction issued by a sheriff to the proper returning officers of cities and boroughs within his jurisdiction for the election of members to serve in parliament.

In old French law, a kind of letters issued by the king in subversion of the laws, being orders to the judges to do or tolerate things contrary to law.

PRECEPT. A writ directed to the sheriff or other officer, commanding him to do something. The term is derived from the operative praecipimus, we command.
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In this way, the artist-writer became inevitable, for these devices also begged description as principles; they could be rationalized and quantified, and the very act of explaining--or even listing--them was enough to establish their preceptive function.
Language in the vicinity of art: artists' writings, 1960-1975 by Weiss, Jeffrey / Artforum International
Whatever point Barbaro is making about deliberative oratory, here, then, clearly goes well beyond the commonplaces of the preceptive tradition.
Rhetoric and humanism in Quattrocento Venice by Cox, Virginia / Renaissance Quarterly
The ability to operate in the intuitive mode was associated with a better performance in history taking and physical assessment, whereas students who operated primarily in the preceptive mode were less likely to accurately determine a simulated patient's problems.
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