precepted

Verb

precept (third-person singular simple present precepts, present participle precepting, simple past and past participle precepted)

1. (US, intransitive) To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To teach (something) by precepts.
   • [T]he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth...1603 (date written), [Francis] Bacon, “Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature; with the Annotations of Hermes Stella. Chapter XI. The Chapter Immediately Following the Inventary; Being...

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