Adjective: preceptive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more preceptive |
| Superlative | most preceptive |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like preceptive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English precept
3. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
4. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
5. Latin -īvus
6. Old French -ifbor.
7. Middle English -yf
8. English -ive
9. English preceptive
10. From precept + -ive.