{"id":24198,"date":"2019-03-01T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24198"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:52:26","slug":"word-of-the-day-455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/01\/word-of-the-day-455\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Precept<\/em>:<\/p>\n

noun<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. an injunction as to moral conduct; maxim.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. a procedural directive or rule, as for the performance of some technical operation.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Law .
    \na writ or warrant.
    \na written order issued pursuant to law, as a sheriff’s order for an election. [Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I used it in this recent post<\/a>. An hour or two later, I ran across the related preceptor<\/em> in story The Dragon Masters<\/strong><\/em>, by Jack Vance, from which I shall forgo quoting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Precept: noun a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct. an injunction as to moral conduct; maxim. a procedural directive or rule, as for the performance of some technical operation. Law . a writ or warrant. a written order issued pursuant to law, as a sheriff’s \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24251,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198\/revisions\/24251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}