Crossword clues for decalogue
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decalogue \Dec"a*logue\ (?; 115), n. [F. d['e]calogue, L. decalogus, fr. Gr. ?; de`ka ten + ? speech, ? 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Ten Commandments," late 14c., from Middle French decalogue, from Latin decalogus, from Greek, from the phrase hoi deka logoi used to translate "Ten Commandments" in Septuagint.
Wiktionary
n. Any set of rules that have the weight of authority n. The Ten Commandments.
Wikipedia
The Decalogue is the Ten Commandments, the list of ethical principles in Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:4–21.
Decalogue may also refer to:
- Ritual Decalogue, also called the Ten Commandments by some, the laws listed in the Book of Exodus, 34:11–26
- Dekalog, a series of ten films by Krzysztof Kieślowski based on the Ten Commandments
- Virgin Decalog, book collections of Doctor Who short stories published by Virgin Publishing
- Decalogue, satirical poem by Ambrose Bierce
- Decalogue (album) album by Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind.
Decalogue is the only full-length solo album (so far) from Jedi Mind Tricks producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind. The album was released on March 31, 2009 under Babygrande Records. Vocals are provided by various rappers and the production is entirely handled by Stoupe himself.
Usage examples of "decalogue".
It was subsequently inscribed on two stone tables, and is known as the Decalogue or Ten Commandments of God.
The Saviour, after confirming the Decalogue with His authority, gave other laws to men concerning the Church He had founded and the means of applying to themselves the fruits of the Redemption.
At this rate, you could efface the whole Decalogue and at one fell stroke destroy all laws, human and divine.
Christ abolished the purely Jewish law, but he left the Decalogue intact.
On the other hand, I do not pretend to have kept the Decalogue of Moses in its integrity, but admit that I have varied it as my occasions seemed to demand.
How could he tell Carruthers-Pillow of all people, who felt in the presence of the most inconsequential chit initialed by the Foreign Secretary much as Moses must have toward the Decalogue God blasted out for him on stone.
These rural sinners make terrible work with the middle of the Decalogue, when they get started.
We may suppose we are in danger because the stone tables of the Decalogue have gone to dust, but it is more dangerous to attempt to control men by fictions.
Meanwhile the Galloways will reign, and will assure us that they won their success by the Decalogue and the Golden Rule-- and will be believed by all who seek to assure for themselves in advance almost certain failure at material success in the arena of action.
Rarely had combined action been necessary, and never in all the dreary history of the camp had the eighth article of the Decalogue been violated.
So far as Ned Hinkley knew anything of the Decalogue it could not well relate to that.
In the beliefs of these men several sins not mentioned in the decalogue took really, if unconsciously, precedence of those which chanced to be found in that list.
But the decalogue has not another syllable which touches the question.
In Exodus chapter 20 the neuter language gender is consistently used throughout this recording of the Decalogue, with only three instances of sexual differentiation.
I was a willing slave of the liturgy of officialdom, a petty bureaucrat of Genesis, a chubby schoolboy transformed into a lowly clerk of the Decalogue brought up to date by the administrative grace of Red Tape.