preceptial

preceptial

English

Etymology

precept +‎ -ial

Adjective

preceptial (comparative more preceptial, superlative most preceptial)

1. (obsolete) preceptive
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 1

     […] for, brother, men

     Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief

     Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,

     Their counsel turns to passion, which before

     Would give preceptial medicine to rage […]

Translations

preceptive

Russian: назида́тельный (ru) m (nazidátelʹnyj), ме́нторский (ru) m (méntorskij), настави́тельный (ru) m (nastavítelʹnyj)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for preceptial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)