preceptive

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Hence the present epistle differs strikingly in its preceptive part from the other two.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

An instruction of the Holy Office of 1866 required that the guilty party in a case of solicitation should confess, but the instruction was directive rather than preceptive.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

He answered, "All power is ordained of God by his provident will, but every power assumed by man is not so by his approbative and preceptive will."

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John

For the reason just indicated, we think the common estimate of the actual influence of even the costliest preceptive sayings is monstrously exaggerated.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

That the preceptive will of God is to be our only rule of duty, few Christians deny.

From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by Dodge, David Low