Vocabulary : Preceptory to Preciously

Preceptory : Preceptive. ;; A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2.
Preceptress : A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
Precession : The act of going before, or forward.
Precessional : Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
Precessor : A predecessor.

Precieuse : An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century.
Precinct : The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. ;; A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct. ;; A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
Preciosity : Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French precieuses of the 17th century. ;; Preciousness; something precious.
Precious : Particular; fastidious; overnice; overrefined. Cf. Precieuse, Preciosity. ;; Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. ;; Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. ;; Particular; fastidious; overnice.
Preciously : In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.

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