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Definition of Preceptors
1. preceptor [n] - See also: preceptor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preceptors
Literary usage of Preceptors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"His preceptors gradually rose to the rank and consequence of ministers of state,8
and, as they wisely dissembled their secret authority, he seemed to act ..."
2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"And Acquiescence of the Maharaja told to his priests and preceptors that he
preceptors, would sacrifice the horse, and the priests bestowed great ..."
3. Report of the Commissioners by Royal Commission on Secondary Education, Great Britain (1895)
"The College of preceptors conducts half-yearly examinations of pupils of schools.
... The College of preceptors also undertakes the examination of entire ..."
4. The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction by Charles Rollin (1770)
"Of tie Duty* of preceptors. I HAVE little to add upon this ... parts of this treat!
fe. i" preceptors are in the place of parents, and muft there-fore adopt ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As a student at Naples, Bologna, and Padua he was the wonder of his fellow-students
and preceptors. As bachelor of theology (19 March, 1492), and afterwards ..."
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