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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Precent  \Pre"cent\,  n.  [L.  praeceptum  from  praecipere  to  take 
  beforehand,  to  instruct,  teach;  prae  before  +  capere  to  take: 
  cf  F.  pr['e]cepte.  See  {Pre-},  and  {Capacious}.] 
  1.  Any  commandment,  instruction,  or  order  intended  as  an 
  authoritative  rule  of  action  esp.,  a  command  respecting 
  moral  conduct;  an  injunction;  a  rule 
 
  For  precept  must  be  upon  precept.  --Isa.  xxviii. 
  10. 
 
  No  arts  are  without  their  precepts.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  (Law)  A  command  in  writing;  a  species  of  writ  or  process. 
  --Burrill. 
 
  Syn:  Commandment;  injunction;  mandate;  law;  rule  direction; 
  principle;  maxim.  See  {Doctrine}. 




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