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Preceptive vs Precarious - What's the difference?

preceptive | precarious |

In legal|lang=en terms the difference between preceptive and precarious

is that preceptive is (legal) of, pertaining to, or based on precepts while precarious is (legal) depending on the intention of another.

As adjectives the difference between preceptive and precarious

is that preceptive is (legal) of, pertaining to, or based on precepts while precarious is (comparable) dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous or precarious can be (dentistry) relating to incipient caries.

preceptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (legal) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
  • * 1677 : , The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
  • ** If it was necessary, that Christ as our surety should suffer the penalty of the law in our stead, because we have sinned; then it was also necessary that as our Surety, he should yield obedience to the preceptive part of the law also;
  • instructive; didactic
  • * 1810 : , Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory
  • ** It is altogether preceptive , barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract.

    • Anagrams

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    precarious

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , and Spanish and Italian precario.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (comparable) Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • (legal) Depending on the intention of another.

    • Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) unsteady, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

    Usage notes

    * Because the (term) element of (term) derives from prex and not the preposition prae, this term cannot — etymologically speaking — be written as *.

    Quotations

    * 1906 , (Jack London), , part I, ch III, *: Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious .

    Derived terms

    * precariously * precariousness * precariat * precarisation, precarization * precarity

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    Etymology 2

    pre-'' + ''carious

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (dentistry) Relating to incipient caries.