Precept vs Akousma - What's the difference?
precept | akousma |
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
* 2006 : ,
** I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept .
* 1891 :
** He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts , they advanced to high civilization.
(legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
(philosophy) A rule or precept, especially one of the list of rules laid down by .
* 1999 , AA Long (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy , Cambridge 1999, p. 74:
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 261:
As nouns the difference between precept and akousma
is that precept is a rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct while akousma is (philosophy) a rule or precept, especially one of the list of rules laid down by.As a verb precept
is (obsolete) to teach by precepts.precept
English
(wikipedia precept)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Gift of Language
Anagrams
* ----akousma
English
Noun
(akousmata)- One of the akousmata'' says that number is the wisest thing, and Pythagoreans may have sworn by Pythagoras as “the one who gave the ''tetraktys ” [...], the first four numbers whose total is ten, which was the perfect number for early Pythagoreans.
- It seemed that each British mystical order claiming Pythagorean descent had its own ideas about those taboos and bits of free advice known as akousmata , and Madame Eskimoff's favorite happened to be number twenty-four as listed by Iamblichus—never look into a mirror when there's a lamp next to you.