Precept
51example is better than precept — Cf. SENECA Letters vi. 5 longum iter est per precepta, breve et efficax per exempla, long is the way by means of precepts, short and effective by examples. 1400 J. MIRK Festial (EETS) 216 Then saythe Seynt Austeyn [Augustine] that an ensampull yn …
52General Motors Precept — The General Motors Precept was a 2000 low emission vehicle concept car aimed at establishing U.S. leadership in the development of extremely fuel efficient vehicles while retaining the features that make them marketable and affordable. It was… …
53written precept of imprisonment — index mittimus Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
54an ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept — A number of proverbs similar in form are illustrated below. An ounce used figuratively for ‘a small quantity’ is found in 1567 W. CECIL Letter in C. Read Mr. Secretary Cecil (1955) xxi. Marry [to be sure], an ounce of advice is more worth to be… …
55fulfilled a precept — obeyed a command …
56negative precept — religious law that prohibits a Jew from doing a particular deed …
57positive precept — religious commandment that a Jew must fulfill in order to properly practice his religion …
58percept — precept …
59PBSI — Precept Business Services, Inc. (Business » NASDAQ Symbols) * Patrol Borough Staten Island (Governmental » Police) …
60correspondence principle — precept that laws of quantum mechanics and other laws of physics must be reduceable to the laws of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetic theory under certain conditions (Physics) …