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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commandment
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the other commandments involve specific actions.
▪ But the tenth commandment is different from all the rest.
▪ Do you see that the promise of things going well with us is attached to keeping the commandment to honour our parents?
▪ One of the 10 commandments is to keep the Sabbath Holy.
▪ Out of that commandment all my values come.
▪ That I took the commandments quite literally was not surprising.
▪ The bleak wisdom of bare and poor streets were still his commandments.
▪ Which commandment did he consider to be the greatest?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commandment

Commandment \Com*mand"ment\, n. [OF. commandement, F. commandement.]

  1. An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

    A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.
    --John xiii. 34.

  2. (Script.) One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

  3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority.

    And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment.
    --Shak.

  4. (Law) The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

    The Commandments, The Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, or summary of God's commands, given to Moses at Mount Sinai. (
    --Ex. xx.)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commandment

late 13c., "an order from an authority," from Old French comandement "order, command," from Latin *commandamentum, from *commandare (see command (v.)). Pronounced as four syllables until 17c.\n\nOf þe x commandements ... þe first comondement is þis, O God we ssul honuri

[c.1280]

Wiktionary
commandment

n. 1 Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict. 2 The act of commanding; exercise of authority. 3 (context legal English) The offence of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

WordNet
commandment
  1. n. something that is commanded

  2. a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts" [syn: teaching, precept]

Wikipedia
Commandment

Commandment may refer to:

  • The Ten Commandments
  • One of the 613 mitzvot of Judaism
  • The Great Commandment
  • The New Commandment
  • Commandment (album), a 2007 album by Six Feet Under
  • Commandments (film), a 1997 film starring Aidan Quinn
Commandment (album)

Commandment is the seventh studio album by death metal band Six Feet Under. It was released April 17, 2007, on Metal Blade Records. They have released videos for "Ghosts of the Undead" and "Doomsday". "Doomsday" was premiered on Headbanger's Ball on Nov 10th.

Usage examples of "commandment".

Such are meant now in the first commandment of the Decalog under those who worship other gods.

It was subsequently inscribed on two stone tables, and is known as the Decalogue or Ten Commandments of God.

For this reason, the Lubavitcher Rebbe prescribed observing the commandments as a means of liberating the divine sparks from their captors, the material husks which enclose all animal, vegetable, and mineral life.

In the year of the Lord 1429, the strife between them that followed Sueder and them that clave to Rodolph--who had been chosen to be Bishop--still continued, and heavy threats were made against the Regulars in that they obeyed the letter of the Apostolic See and the commandments of Sueder, Bishop of Utrecht.

Emmanuel also, when he had thus set forwards to go to recover the town of Mansoul, took with him, at the commandment of his Father, fifty-four battering-rams, and twelve slings to whirl stones withal.

Russian literature that their first commandment, that art should have no other gods before the cause of social reform, had established a censorship of the left no less oppressive than the censorship of the tsarist bureaucracy.

Ten Commandments tablets as unconstitutionally making the viewer think that they are an open Bible in disguise.

Claire Meadows some time later he had completely demolished still another commandment, for, as has been previously suggested, Tim Willows could not tolerate half measures.

In this cold galaxy, the commandment of Eat or Be Eaten prevailed, from the throne of Emperor Palpatine all the way down to the smallest carnivore, a Tatooinian womp rat, scuttling across an empty desert.

Yea, thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, and whether thou wouldest keep His commandments or no.

Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

Sunne, thou governest the world, thou treadest downe the power of hell: By thy meane the times returne, the Planets rejoyce, the Elements serve: at thy commandment the winds do blow, the clouds increase, the seeds prosper, and the fruits prevaile, the birds of the aire, the beasts of the hill, the serpents of the den, and the fishes of the sea, do tremble at thy majesty, but my spirit is not able to give thee sufficient praise, my patrimonie is unable to satisfie thy sacrifice, my voice hath no power to utter that which I thinke, no if I had a thousand mouths and so many tongues: Howbeit as a good religious person, and according to my estate, I will alwaies keepe thee in remembrance and close thee within my breast.

A world of ladies fall on kneen Before my lady, -- Thanking her, and placing themselves at her commandment.

Then Zephyrus according to the divine commandment brought them down, although it were against his wil, and laid them in the vally without any harm : by and by they went into the palace to their sister without leave, and when they had eftsoone embraced their prey, and thanked her with flattering words for the treasure which she gave them, they said, O deare sister Psyches, know you that you are now no more a child, but a mother : O what great joy beare you unto us in your belly?

I have sought for a girle and cannot finde her, wherefore there resteth nothing else save that thou with thy trumpet doe pronounce the reward to such as take her: see thou put in execution my commandment, and declare that whatsoever he be that retaineth her wittingly, against my will shall not defend himselfe by any meane or excusation: which when she had spoken, she delivered unto him a libell, wherein was contained the name of Psyches, and the residue of his publication, which done, she departed away to her lodging.