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Proceptive vs Preceptive - What's the difference?

proceptive | preceptive |

As adjectives the difference between proceptive and preceptive

is that proceptive is of or pertaining to proception while preceptive is (legal) of, pertaining to, or based on precepts.

proceptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to proception
  • Leading to conception

    • 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.

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