Usually means: Guiding or giving moral instruction.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word preceptive:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. preceptive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preceptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preceptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preceptive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preceptive: Wordnik
  6. preceptive: Wiktionary
  7. preceptive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. preceptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Preceptive, preceptive: Dictionary.com
  10. Preceptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. preceptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Preceptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. preceptive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. preceptive: Free Dictionary
  15. preceptive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. preceptive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. preceptive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preceptive: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (preceptive)

adjective:  (law) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
adjective:  instructive; didactic

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