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Teach :: Teach (v. t.) To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class..

Commandment :: Commandment (n.) An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

Obedience :: Obedience (n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.

Voice :: Voice (n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.

Preceptorial :: Preceptorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

Precipe :: Precipe (n.) See Praecipe, and Precept..

Disgospel :: Disgospel (v. i.) To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel..

Religion :: Religion (n.) Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice..

Apophthegm :: Apophthegm (n.) A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim..

Decalogue :: Decalogue (n.) The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone..

Preceptor :: Preceptor (n.) The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.

Order :: Order (n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.

Didactical :: Didactical (a.) Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays..

Sutra :: Sutra (n.) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.

Prescript :: Prescript (n.) Direction; precept; model prescribed.

Warrantable :: Warrantable (a.) Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable..

Preception :: Preception (n.) A precept.

Hest :: Hest (n.) Command; precept; injunction.

Venire Facias :: Venire facias () A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court..

Regulation :: Regulation (n.) A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school..

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