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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of precept.

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Examples

  • All office visits are precepted by the Attending Physicians.

    Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine 2010

  • For the two commended rules by him set down, whereby the axioms of sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and which the latter men have not without elegancy surnamed the one the rule of truth because it preventeth deceit, the other the rule of prudence because it freeth election, are the same thing in speculation and affirmation which we now observe.

    Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature 2003

  • I would love to see Princeton show leadership in finding serious ways to identify and reward good teaching (as serious as the way we did it 30 years ago, when three or four senior faculty members precepted for each assistant professor in my department, and judgments of teaching ability rested on their semester-long direct experience).

    The Daily Princetonian, 2010-03-25 2010

  • One of the Nurses who precepted me was soooo kind and supportive … ..

    beauty lies within 2009

  • Honorees are chosen based on how many UTMB students they have precepted, student evaluations, and involvement in their community.

    wacotrib - Latest News Headlines 2008

  • The last person I precepted spent more time trying to show all of us how "backwards" we do things than actually working.

    DisappearingJohn RN 2008

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