The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preceptive
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.
Wiktionary
preceptive
a. 1 (context legal English) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts 2 instructive; didactic
Usage examples of "preceptive".
Now there are three kinds of sentence - interlocutory, definitive, and preceptive.