Usually means: Rules or principles guiding behavior.
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  1. precepts: Merriam-Webster
  2. precepts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. precepts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Precepts, precepts: Wordnik
  5. precepts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. precepts: Wiktionary
  7. precepts: Dictionary.com
  8. precepts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Precepts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Precepts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Precepts: Legal dictionary

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  1. Precepts: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (precept)

noun:  A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
noun:  (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
noun:  (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
noun:  A rate or tax set by a precept.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly US, medicine) To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To teach (something) by precepts.
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