preceptive

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We might infer this from the extent of the reading, which was sufficient for all the preceptive parts of the Pentateuch.

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

Man′datory, containing a mandate or command; preceptive: directory.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

Neither grammar then, nor rhetoric, nor any kind of misguided preceptive teaching should be allowed to introduce into the school the menace of realism which lurks naturally in the shadow of all prescriptive systems.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

If every providential power is also preceptive, the answer must be given in the affirmative.

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