or Dec′a·log·
[sometimesd-] Ten Commandments
Origin of Decalogue
Middle English decaloge from Ecclesiastical Late Latin decalogus from Ecclesiastical Greek dekalogos: see deca- and -logueDecalogue
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Decalogue
or Dec·a·log
noun
- Bible The Ten Commandments.
- A fundamental set of rules having authoritative weight.
Origin of Decalogue
Middle English decalog from Late Latin decalogus from Greek dekalogos deka ten ; see dek&mlowring; in Indo-European roots. logos word, pronouncement ; see leg- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural decalogues)
- Alternative spelling of Decalogue.
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Sentence Examples
- This last resulted in a great number of nominal conversions, as baptism was the passport to government favour, and church membership was based on the learning of the Decalogue and the Lord's Prayer, and on the saying of grace at mealtimes.
- Of repentance it would seem that she knew as little as of fear, having been trained from her infancy in a religion where the Decalogue was supplanted by the Creed.
- In 1520 he had brought out a primer of religion dealing briefly with the Decalogue, the Creed and the Lord's Prayer; and Justus Jonas, Johannes Agricola and other leaders had done something of the same kind.
- Dufour was published in 1878), and explained the Decalogue, the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer and the Sacraments.
- In the main they are expositions of the Creed, the Lord's Prayer and the Decalogue, and thus follow a tradition that has come down from the days when Cyril of Jerusalem delivered his catechetical Lectures.
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WORDS NEAR Decalogue IN THE DICTIONARY
- Decalogue
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- decalogy
- decals