What's the difference between precept and recondite?

Precept


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To teach by precepts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was George Wickham who, in Darcy's youth, by personal example and precept largely helped to keep him out of trouble.
  • (2) Rather, there are unwritten standards taught by precept and enforced at the level of science (e.g.
  • (3) Not one pound is getting through to elderly and frail people in our homes … It needs to get through to people who need it.” On the council tax precept , he added: “In northern constituencies they just won’t be able to raise the money, these are impoverished places like Knowsley or Birkenhead, where I am from.
  • (4) By having all second-year residents together, faculty teaching time was efficiently used, and the haphazard results from relying on faculty-resident precepting experiences in the family practice center to provide training in these areas was avoided.
  • (5) The elected commissioners would be responsible for the hiring and firing of chief constables and for setting the council tax "precept" that funds the force.
  • (6) In daily practice physicians are professionally obliged to interpret ethical precepts and laws in emergency situations under extreme pressure when resuscitation measures leave little or no time to consider deontological issues.
  • (7) Commonly accepted precepts are challenged: (1) that homologous chromosome pairing is normally mediated by nuclear envelope attachment sites; (2) that crossover site establishment awaits synaptic completion; and (3) that it is the function of the synaptonemal complex to hold homologues in register so that equal crossing over can occur, and perhaps to provide machinery for the crossover process.
  • (8) Herbert acknowledged that the direct government grant for policing was being cut by 20% in real terms over four years, but said this would be offset by increases in the precept (the funding from local council tax).
  • (9) He is planning to announce the lower threshold for 2015-16 on Wednesday, the same day as the local government finance settlement, but May has warned that police budgets are already under serious strain and it would cost police and crime commissioners £1.1m to stage a referendum if they wished to raise the police precept by more than 1%.
  • (10) In attempting to reach his objective, the restorative dentist must remember the fundamental precept of the health professions, which is: Do no harm.
  • (11) When certain basic precepts peculiar to this age group are observed, the treatment of shaft fractures in young children nevertheless carries a favorable prognosis.
  • (12) He said: "We were clearly the only ones playing with a straight bat and interested in applying the precepts of Scottish justice, which we continue to do and continue to uphold.
  • (13) It seems that a unified family structure reinforces a normative social behavior, but it fosters dependency and restricts breadth of preception and possibilities for exercising diversity in behavior.
  • (14) Ethical precepts are also violated by denying women their right to privacy and by the punitive actions taken against women undergoing abortion by physicians, other health workers, and antiabortion proponents.
  • (15) Human milk is a preferred food for full-term infants during the first six months of life; however, this precept does not suggest that all infants who are exclusively breast-fed will grow adequately.
  • (16) In the Precept pacing system, the right ventricular intracardiac impedance waveform is used to evaluate either of two indicators of metabolic demand relative right ventricular stroke volume and preejection interval (PEI).
  • (17) Young monks study the precepts of their religion in monasteries run by Chinese cadres, even though they know that if they fail to denounce the Dalai Lama they could be dragged away in the middle of the night to face torture and imprisonment.
  • (18) During the first eight months of the clerkship, 23 medical students were observed in a time and motion analysis and a study of the verbal content of the precepting interactions as students presented their patients to a preceptor.
  • (19) These thoughts about an ethic of international health can be summarized in a very free revision of the Hippocratic Oath: I will share the science and art by precept, by demonstration, and by every mode of teaching with other physicians regardless of their national origin.
  • (20) The wide gap between the precepts and practices prevailing among practitioners, the use of potent medicines without proper medical advice and the uninhibited sale of scheduled drugs over the pharmacy counter require careful consideration.

Recondite


Definition:

  • (a.) Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
  • (a.) Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A pony-tailed local businessman, Hall rose to prominence during the referendum campaign when he used a reconditioned Green Goddess fire engine to distribute pro-independence literature.
  • (2) Relative to conditioning and reconditioning, extinction effected larger IRTs and smaller GSP amplitudes.
  • (3) In addition, cardiopulmonary reconditioning exercises are initiated to increase overall activity tolerance.
  • (4) She was treated successfully with a 600 k.cal diet and a 26-day physical reconditioning programme.
  • (5) The goal is to create an environment in which returning workers can rebuild psychological self-confidence and physical reconditioning by replicating their work routine.
  • (6) One of the pitfalls of describing Fry is the tendency to veer towards language that is recondite.
  • (7) It was demonstrated that the use of an FSOT column gives only a small decrease in the detection limit compared with a packed column; reconditioning of the FSOT column is, however, a disadvantage in routine measurements.
  • (8) During reconditioning, in the case of the sexually already mature pups, the weakest performance was observed in the offspring of mothers having received oral alcohol treatment.
  • (9) In 1961, based on results obtained with the particulate tracer ferritin, Farquhar, Wissig and Palade [15] proposed a functional model for the glomerulus and defined a role for each of its components in the filtration process: a) the basement membrane as the main filter; b) the endothelium as a valve, which by the number and size of its fenestrae, controls access to the filter; c) the epithelium as a monitor which partially recovers proteins that leak through the filter; and d) the mesangium which serves to recondition and unclog the filter by incorporating and disposing of filtration residues which accumulate against it.
  • (10) Summer and winter recondition camps are organized for children aged 6 to 17 years.
  • (11) A combination of aversive therapy and orgasmic reconditioning failed to produce the expected changes in sexual activities and arousal patterns.
  • (12) The capability for de- and reconditioning is a characteristic and unique property of precipitation membranes, not found in other membrane systems.
  • (13) Along with physical reconditioning, the cardiac rehabilitation program provides an opportunity to address risk factor modification, return to work, return to sexual activity, management of depression and anxiety, and the presence of risk factors in the patient's family.
  • (14) Early detection and treatment of possible complications and institution of a comprehensive plan for rehabilitation and reconditioning can improve the chances for a successful outcome.
  • (15) Low intensity exercise is effective in cardiac reconditioning and should be favored at least during the initial stages of a training regimen in view of the decreased orthopedic problems, added safety, high adherence level and tolerable working rate.
  • (16) This has been due both to the availability of automated reconditioning machines and powerful chemical cleaning and disinfecting agents.
  • (17) However, only eight subjects completed eight weeks of reconditioning.
  • (18) This includes physical therapy with breathing retraining, clapping and postural drainage, and exercise reconditioning, occupational therapy with attention to energy conservation in activities of daily living, psychological considerations, and vocational rehabilitation.
  • (19) Physical therapy with postural drainage, exercise reconditioning, and occupational therapy deserve attention.
  • (20) The motives of reproduction in women--the reasons why they want to have children--are experienced on three different levels: (1) as an elementary and universal human event which, however, event on casual observation betrays its recondite and complex motivation.