preceptive

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But, moreover, all such providential magistrates are also preceptive.

From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by Presbytery, The Reformed

Chief among these is the collection of Don Fernando Juncos, of San Juan, which contains 15,000 volumes of classic and preceptive literature and social and economic science, 1,200 volumes of which bear the author's autographs.

From The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by Van Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)

The general burden and strain of the Discourse with which the Redeemer opened His ministry is preceptive and mandatory.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

In every course of studies, all the practical and preceptive parts of the Gospel should be sacredly inculcated, and all dogmatical theology and sectarianism sacredly excluded.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira

But love is a potent and untameable passion, disdaining the narrow limitations of preceptive constancy.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane