precept
pree sept
- n rule of personal conduct
- n a doctrine that is taught
he believed all the Christian precepts
- It is a well known precept that if the government encroaches on the freedom of the individual then it is the right of the people to overthrow that government.
- In a fashion the old revolutionary could hardly have intended, the Soviet economy has become today a battlefield of explosive ideas that threaten nearly every precept and .
- The movie also follows a precept of animation that stretches back to Gertie the Dinosaur, Krazy Kat and Mickey Mouse, through the classic Warner Bros.