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

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Decalogue

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

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

Contrast that shapelessness with, say, Scenes From a Marriage, or The Best of Youth, or The Decalogue, all limited-run TV programs from Europe that are better than just about anything American TV has ever made.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2013

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