Preceptive
71mandatory — Synonyms and related words: absolute, authoritative, binding, canonical, choiceless, commanded, commanding, compelling, compulsatory, compulsory, conclusive, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, demanded, dictated, didactic, entailed, essential,… …
72official — Synonyms and related words: Federal, absolute, accepted, accredited, administrative, administrator, agent, amanuensis, apparently, approved, archon, aristocratic, ascendant, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic,… …
73peremptory — Synonyms and related words: absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, admitting no exception, all out, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, binding, bossy, categorical, certain, clear, commanding,… …
74prescribed — Synonyms and related words: accepted, authoritative, binding, bound, bounded, canonical, conditioned, confined, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, copyrighted, cramped, current, customary, dictated, didactic, disciplined, established,… …
75prescriptive — Synonyms and related words: absolute, accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, average, binding, canonical, commanding, common, commonplace, compelling, compulsory, conclusive, conformable,… …
76regulation — Synonyms and related words: Procrustean law, accepted, accommodation, accustomed, act, adaptation, adjustment, administration, assimilation, attunement, authoritative, authority, average, balance, balancing, bill, binding, bylaw, canon, canonical …
77standard — Synonyms and related words: Christian, Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Procrustean law, Samson post, Star Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Ten Commandments, Union Flag, Union Jack, Zeitgeist, accepted, accustomed, acid test, alike, amount,… …
78statutory — Synonyms and related words: actionable, applicable, authoritative, authorized, binding, canonical, competent, constitutional, dictated, didactic, formulary, hard and fast, instructive, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful,… …
79teaching — Synonyms and related words: a belief, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, article of faith, assignment, autodidactic, axiom, belief, byword, canon, catchword, chalk talk, charge, coeducational, collected sayings, command, commission, credo …
80precept — [ pri:sɛpt] noun 1》 a general rule regulating behaviour or thought. 2》 a writ or warrant. 3》 Brit. an order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf. ↘Brit. a rate or tax set by a precept …
