Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section III. Voluntary Action
2. Complex Voluntary Action

697. Precept.

   NOUN:PRECEPT, direction, instruction, charge; prescript, prescription; recipe, receipt; golden rule; maxim [See Maxim].
  rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris [L.], lex scripta [L.], convention; unwritten law; canon law; act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation; model, form, formula, formulary; technicality; nice point, fine point, norm.
  order (command) [See Command].