Crossword-Solution: PRECEPTOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preceptor | n. | One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. |
| Preceptor | n. | The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PRECEPTOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Teacher or principal | 1 answer |
| instructor | 30 answers |
| Mentor | 37 answers |
| OVERPOWERING person | 45 answers |
| Main | 67 answers |
| Teacher | 68 answers |
| supreme | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRECEPTOR (5)
Certain it is, this was not the case with the redoubtable Brom Bones; and from the moment Ichabod Crane made his advances, the interests of the former evidently declined: his horse was no longer seen tied to the palings on Sunday nights, and a deadly feud gradually arose between him and the preceptor of Sleepy Hollow.
Have you ever been really frank with this preceptor of your childhood, even when you _were_ a child? Think a minute, have you? Of course not! From your cradle, as I once told you, you’ve been ‘doing it’ on the side, living your own life, admitting to yourself things that would horrify him.
This establishment of the Templars was seated amidst fair meadows and pastures, which the devotion of the former Preceptor had bestowed upon their Order.
The boy, patterning his conduct after that of his preceptor, unstoppered the vials of his invective upon the head of the enemy, until in realization of the futility of words as weapons he bethought himself of something heavier to hurl.
They knew not the meanings of the words they mouthed; they but repeated the ritual that had been handed down from preceptor to neophyte since that long-gone day when the ancestors of the Piltdown man still swung by their tails in the humid jungles that are England now.
Quotes with PRECEPTOR (3)
songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.
Let you follow the path of prayer and devotion and if God in you takes pity He will appear as God-the-preceptor and will show you His sports and sportive forms and you will be a witness to them.
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1968).