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Webster 1913 Edition
Decalogue
Dec′a-logue
(?; 115)
, Noun.
[F.
décalogue
, L. decalogus
, fr. Gr. [GREEK]; δέκα
ten + [GREEK] speech, [GREEK] to speak, to say. See Ten
.] The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Decalogue
DEC'ALOGUE
,Noun.
DECAM'ETER, n. [Gr., ten and measure.] A French measure of length, consisting of ten meters, and equal to 393 English inches, and 71 decimals.
DECAMP', v.i. To remove or depart from a camp; to march off; as, the army decamped at six o'clock.
DECAMP'MENT, n. Departure from a camp; a marching off.
DEC'ANAL, a. Pertaining to a deanery.
DECAN'DER, n. [Gr., ten and a male.] In botany, a plant having ten stamens.
Definition 2025
Decalogue
Decalogue
English
Proper noun
Decalogue
- The Ten Commandments.
Derived terms
Translations
the Ten Commandments — see Ten Commandments
Noun
Decalogue (plural Decalogues)
Translations
decalogue
decalogue
English
Noun
decalogue (plural decalogues)
- Alternative spelling of Decalogue
- 1959, John Knowles, A Separate Peace, chapter 5,
- It was only a feeling he had, and at this moment he must have been formulating a new commandment in his personal decalogue: Never accuse a friend of a crime if you only have a feeling he did it.
- 1959, John Knowles, A Separate Peace, chapter 5,