Precept vs Rudiment - What's the difference?
precept | rudiment | Related terms |
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.
A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
* Shakespeare
Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
* Milton
* I. Taylor
(biology) A body part that no longer has a function
(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
Precept is a related term of rudiment.
As nouns the difference between precept and rudiment
is that precept is a rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct while rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).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
* ----rudiment
English
(wikipedia rudiment)Noun
(en noun)- We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
- This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
- I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
- But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
- The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
