preceptial

English

Etymology

From precept +‎ -ial.

Adjective

preceptial (comparative more preceptial, superlative most preceptial)

1. (obsolete) preceptive
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     […] for, brother, men
     Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
     Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
     Their counsel turns to passion, which before
     Would give preceptial medicine to rage […]

Translations

preceptive

• Russian: назида́тельный (ru) m (nazidátelʹnyj), ме́нторский (ru) m (méntorskij), настави́тельный (ru) m (nastavítelʹnyj)

References

• “preceptial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.