Preceptor Definition

prĭ-sĕptər, prēsĕptər
preceptors
noun
preceptors
A teacher.
Webster's New World
An expert or specialist, such as a physician, who gives practical experience and training to a student, especially of medicine or nursing.
American Heritage Medicine
The head of a preceptory.
Webster's New World

The headmaster or principal of a school, especially a private school.

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Other Word Forms of Preceptor

Noun

Singular:
preceptor
Plural:
preceptors

Origin of Preceptor

  • Middle English from Latin praeceptor from praecipere to teach precept

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin praeceptor, from the verb praecipiō.

    From Wiktionary

Preceptor Sentence Examples

  • The relation between him and his old preceptor was of a very singular kind.

  • Threatened with imprisonment in his turn, he fled to Piedmont, where he obtained a university professorship and became preceptor of the crown prince Humbert.

  • When the student was assigned to a 'good preceptor ' the outcome of the placement was positively influenced.

  • Substantially he held fast the Calvinism of his preceptor Cameron; but, like Richard Baxter in England, by his breadth and charity he exposed himself to all manner of misconstruction.

  • About the middle of the same century grammar had a far abler exponent at Rome in the person of Aelius Donatus, the preceptor of St Jerome, as well as the author of a text-book that remained in use throughout the middle ages.

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