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Decalogue(dictionary)

Decalogue (iou)



Decalogue noun. Also decalogue. LME.
[French decalogue or ecclesiastical Latin decalogus from Greek dekalogos, orig. fem. adjective (sc. biblos book), after hoi deka logoi the Ten Commandments (Septuagint), from deka ten + logos saying, speech: see -LOGUE.]
The Ten Commandments collectively as a body of law.
Decalogist noun (rare) a person who expounds the Decalogue M17.