Decalogue

American  

[dek-uh-lawg, -log] / ˈdɛk əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /

Or Decalog

noun

1. Sometimes decalogue the Ten Commandments.

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Decalogue British  

/ ˈdɛkəˌlɒɡ /

noun

1. another name for the Ten Commandments

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Etymology

Origin of Decalogue

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English decalog, from Late Latin decalogus, from Medieval Greek, Greek dekálogos; see origin at deca-, -logue

Example Sentences

An artist as imaginative as Toles can certainly get plenty of creative mileage out of this repellent character trait without doing violence to the Decalogue.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2019

Basic principles of ethics remain the same, from the Decalogue to the writings of John of Patmos.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

The chapters are structured rather confusingly around the media in which the Decalogue has been wrought between the mid-19th century and the present: stone, paper, stained glass, and film.

From Slate • May 15, 2017

In the first week alone I dropped 15 pounds, re-watched Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue, built a sustainable small-yield garden for my daughter, and learned knife throwing.

From Time • Aug. 27, 2014

But no candid man will doubt that, humanly speaking, it was a more difficult thing to write the Principia than to write the Decalogue.

From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood