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 (prĭ-sĕp′tər, prē′sĕp′tər)
1. A teacher; an instructor.
2. An expert or specialist, such as a physician, who gives practical experience and training to a student, especially of medicine or nursing.
3. The head of a preceptory.

[Middle English, from Latin praeceptor, from praecipere, to teach; see precept.]

pre′cep·to′ri·al (prē′sĕp-tôr′ē-əl) adj.
pre′cep·to′ri·al·ly adv.
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But while the second Bush administration in particular was desirous of a more 'preceptorial ' role in world affairs, and this before 9/11 even (Anderson, 2013, page 89), it was also this administration that would most fully explore what it means to deploy a more productive form of police power: one whose roots invoke a rather different historical geography.
As Seth Lerer shrewdly observes, both Exeter Maxims and The Order of the World, "utilize the idioms of openness and enclosure, binding and loosening, inscribing and reading, and questioning and answering to establish a hermeneutical vocabulary drawn from distinctively artistic and preceptorial contexts.
Some students in my preceptorial would chat with me and ask to feel the baby.
Perhaps most in keeping with the special nature of these positions, each candidate was asked to choose a text from the forty or so in the honors Civilizations curriculum and lead a "mock preceptorial," populated by current honors students and open to observation by anyone interested in the search.
In some respects, moreover, it occurred to me that an interactive tutorial machine might outdrill my preceptorial John Henry, all steamed up and fixing to die with the marker in his hand, Lord, Lord.
Parts II-IV, which are the heart of the book, recount the future president's efforts to improve Princeton and elevate it to the first rank of American universities through significant expansion of the campus footprint, but also, much more importantly, by far-reaching curriculum reforms and the introduction of the preceptorial system.