Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Preceptive \Pre*cep"tive\, a. [L. praeceptivus.]
   Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts;
   didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.

         The lesson given us here is preceptive to us.
                                                  --L'Estrange.