Preceptive vs Receptive - What's the difference?
preceptive | receptive |
(legal) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
* 1677 : ,
** 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 : ,
** It is altogether preceptive , barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract.
As adjectives the difference between preceptive and receptive
is that preceptive is of, pertaining to, or based on precepts while receptive is capable of receiving something.preceptive
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Adjective
(en adjective)The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory