The knights to whom they were addressed were styled Praeceptores Templi, or Preceptors of the Temple, and the districts administered by them Praeceptoria, or preceptories.
The differentpreceptors of the Temple in England had under their management lands and property in every county of the realm.
She said that I knew him almost as well as she did; that he was very honest, but she wished that he was a little more forward, and less childish at his age: that she hoped his preceptors would improve him.
I take this opportunity of enclosing to you a list of the servants that I find absolutely necessary to place about my third and fourth sons; now I put two preceptors to attend them.
Like sentiment was taught in direct and indirect ways by no small number of preceptors in negro schoolhouses.
It was with keen regret that their old preceptors saw them throw all their fine schooling in etiquette to the winds.
Neither his nurses nor preceptors ever surprised him in a lie.
My preceptors and patrons were amazed, and so they expected I should make a learned man, a luminary of the Church.
And they pay due homage to their preceptors and superiors and practise Yoga, are forgiving, continent and energetic and pious and are generally endowed with every virtue.
And preceptors impoverished will be disregarded by men.
O Rakshasa, we are the guardians, governors and preceptors of kingdoms.
On the day of the arrest of the Master and his knights, the king took possession of the Temple at Paris; and the Master and the preceptors of Aquitaine, France, and beyond sea, were sent prisoners to Corbeil.
The preceptors were subordinate to the priors; they presided over one or more houses.
He had made himself many inveterate enemies among the sophists, orators, and poets, who taught in the public schools, and even among the preceptors who had the care of the children of distinction.
Monarchs seldom condescend to become the preceptors of their subjects; and some praise is due to Justinian, by whose command an ample system was reduced to a short and elementary treatise.
Preceptors are wise, and sinless, and very kind to all creatures.
The universities and schools reared a succession of preceptors who deserted the monastic traditions, and to whom learning was a mere vocation.
Through you I am become an object of suspicion to preceptors of youth, and fathers of families.
That authors are and ought to be considered the masters and preceptors of the public, and not vice versa.
In this age of light, they teach the people that preceptors ought to be in the place of gallants.
When the fence from the gallantry of preceptors is broken down, and your families are no longer protected by decent pride, and salutary domestic prejudice, there is but one step to a frightful corruption.
In former times the education of our children, even of the most gifted, was entrusted to preceptors who occupied less than secondary positions.
The art of speaking and writing with correctness is imperceptibly acquired from the language of the preceptors and other models with whom the boy comes in frequent contact.
In our climate, where children are very susceptible, it happened that when on rare occasions any striking observation attracted their attention, they would put questions very difficult for their parents or preceptors to answer.
The Installation of Character-Divers and Preceptors is a ceremony of a very solemn character, and takes place in public, the Twelve Kings presiding.
The aid given me by the character-divers and preceptors in carrying out my plans was incalculable.
The examination takes place yearly, to prove to the parents that the preceptors have, done their duty, and is in itself very innocent, as it only causes the young ladies to blush a little.
For, say they, your parents and preceptors are delirious and stupid, and neither know what is truly good, nor are able to effect it, being prepossessed with trifles of an unusual nature.
They do not treat their very preceptors, when the latter arrive at their houses, in the manner in whichpreceptors should be treated.
He becomes a Brahmana for worshipping his preceptors and other seniors as also the deities.
Preceptors are the foremost of Tirthas; the heart is the foremost of all sacred objects; knowledge is the foremost of all objects of search; and contentment is the foremost of all happiness.
What also are the merits of serving preceptors and teachers, and what are the merits of compassion and kindness?
Preceptors of all branches of learning, Brahmanas, Ritwiks, all my brothers, thy son, viz.
They pour libations on the blazing sacrificial fire (every day) and 'are obedient to the behests of their preceptors and seniors.
Those Brahmanas who pour libations on the sacred fire for Sudras, or who are preceptors of Sudras, or who as servants of Sudra masters, do not deserve to be invited.
Those men who having acquired knowledge by rendering obedient services to their preceptors and observing austere penances, become reluctant to accept gifts, succeed in ascending to heaven.
Wright, however, who had been one of Mr. Kauffman's preceptors at the law school, warmly recommended him and urged me to give him a position in the office.
My preceptors were two very able judges of the supreme court of Kentucky, to-wit, Judge Robinson and Judge Marshall.
This we shall explain more fully when we speak hereafter of grammar; we just mention the subject here, to warn preceptors against puzzling their pupils too early with grammatical subtleties.
Two years increase prodigiously the vocabulary and the ideas of young people, and preceptors should consider, that what we call literary taste, cannot be formed without a variety of knowledge.
Some preceptors scold when they cannot explain, and grow angry in proportion to the fatigue they see expressed in the countenance of their unhappy pupils.
Wherever parents or preceptors can supply the place of notes and commentators, they need not think their time ill bestowed.
Preceptors sometimes explain general terms and abstract notions vaguely to their pupils, simply because they are ashamed to make that answer which every sensible person must frequently make to a child's inquiries, "I don't know.
And he very sensibly asks his father, why, if it be necessary in some cases to ensnare and deceive men, he had not in his childhood been taught by his preceptors the art of doing harm to his fellow-creatures, as well as of doing them good.
Both parents and children must regret the suppression of these explanatory notes; as the lessons appear at present, no child of seven years old can understand, and few preceptors can or will make them what they ought to be.
Gratitude is one of the most certain, but one of the latest, rewards, which preceptors and parents should expect from their pupils.
Examples from books must, however, be also uniformly supported by examples in real life; preceptors and parents must practise the virtues which they preach.
Intelligent preceptors will apply the instance of the bason of bread and milk, in a variety of apparently dissimilar circumstances.
Those lowest of mortals on the other hand, who, after obtaining knowledge from their preceptors strike the latter, those wicked men, go to hell.
Those bulls among men that give desirable objects unto their preceptors after obtaining knowledge from them, attain to godhead.
All high-souled preceptors have this characteristic, viz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preceptors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
