preceptive

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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

The value which we attach to the volume depends, however, rather on its preceptive than its antiquarian character.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

But there is a great difference between his decretive and his preceptive will.

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

If the distinction between the preceptive and providential will of God is to be overthrown, then providence must be expressive of God's approbative ordination, equally as his revealed will is.

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

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)