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Attachable :: Attachable (a.) Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept..

Commandment :: Commandment (n.) One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice..

Preceptory :: Preceptory (n.) A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2..

Obedience :: Obedience (n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.

Scholar :: Scholar (n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

Preceptories :: Preceptories (pl. ) of Preceptor.

Institute :: Institute (a.) Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n..

Return :: Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document..

Didactical :: Didactical (a.) Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays..

Rite :: Rite (n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry..

Preceptor :: Preceptor (n.) The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.

Preceptive :: Preceptive (a.) Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures..

Instruction :: Instruction (n.) Precept; information; teachings.

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Document :: Document (n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory..

Voice :: Voice (n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.

Returnable :: Returnable (a.) Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court..

Mohammedism :: Mohammedism (n.) The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism..

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