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Definition: Decalogue |
DecalogueNoun1. The biblical commandments of Moses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Decalogue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
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Satire | DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian. Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Robert Ingersoll to break. Take not God's name in vain; select A time when it will have effect. Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to see the teams play ball. Honor thy parents. That creates For life insurance lower rates. Kill not, abet not those who kill; Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill. Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete Successfully in business. Cheat. Bear not false witness -- that is low -- But "hear 'tis rumored so and so." Cover thou naught that thou hast not By hook or crook, or somehow, got. G.J. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Decalogue the name given by the Greek fathers to the ten commandments; "the ten words," as the original is more literally rendered (Ex. 20:3-17). These commandments were at first written on two stone slabs (31:18), which were broken by Moses throwing them down on the ground (32:19). They were written by God a second time (34:1). The decalogue is alluded to in the New Testament five times (Matt. 5:17, 18, 19; Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20; Rom. 7:7, 8; 13:9; 1 Tim. 1:9, 10). These commandments have been divided since the days of Origen the Greek father, as they stand in the Confession of all the Reformed Churches except the Lutheran. The division adopted by Luther, and which has ever since been received in the Lutheran Church, makes the first two commandments one, and the third the second, and so on to the last, which is divided into two. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house" being ranked as ninth, and "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife," etc., the tenth. (See COMMANDMENTS.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Synonym: DecalogueSynonym: Ten Commandments (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Duty | Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Decalogue |
| English words defined with "Decalogue": Decalog, Decalogist ♦ Mezuzoth. (references) |
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| "Decalogue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Decalogue" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
decalogue | 26 |
decalogue kieslowski | 3 |
decalogue dvd | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Decalogue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dhjetë porositë e moisiut. (various references) | |
Arabic | الوصايا العشر (ten commandments). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | десетте божи заповеди, декалог. (various references) | |
French | décalogue. (various references) | |
Greek | δεκάλογοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tízparancsolat (ten commandments). (various references) | |
Italian | decalogo (handbook). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecalogueday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | decálogo. (various references) | |
Romanian | decalog, cele zece porunci. (various references) | |
Russian | десять заповедей (the ten tables). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deset božjih zapovesti. (various references) | |
Spanish | decálogo. (various references) | |
Swedish | tio guds bud. (various references) | |
Turkish | on emir (the ten commandments). (various references) | |
Ukranian | десять заповідей, декалог. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Decalogue": decalogues. (additional references) | |
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"Decalogue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Decalogues, D'ecologie, Delacour, Delafouge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Decalogue" (pronounced 'Dec"a*logue'): Analogue, Apologue, Collogue, Eclogue, Epilogue, Euchologue, Grammalogue, Homologue, Idealogue, monologue, Monopolylogue, Myriologue, Mythologue, Philologue, Psychologue, Sinologue, Theologue, Trialogue. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-l-o-u" | |
-2 letters: decalog, eclogue, glaceed, leagued. | |
-3 letters: caudle, cedula, coaled, colead, coulee, cudgel, deluge, elodea, gaoled, goaled, league. | |
-4 letters: acold, aglee, aloud, cadge, caged, cauld, clade, cloud, clued, coled, coude, could, decal, deuce, dolce, douce, ducal, eagle, educe, elude, geode, glace, glade, glede, gleed, glued, guaco, laced, ledge, lodge, luged, ogled. | |
-5 letters: aced, aged, agee, ague, alec, alee, aloe, auld, cade, cage, calo, caul, cede, clad, clag, clod, clog, clue, coal, coda, code, coed, cola, cold, cole, cued, dace, dago, dale, deal, deco, dele, doge, dole, dual, duce, duel, edge, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gaol, gaud, geed, geld, glad, gled, glee, glue, goad, goal, gold, gude, lace, lade, laud, lead, leud, load, loca, lode, loge, loud, luce, lude, luge, odea, ogee, ogle, olea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-l-o-u" | |
+1 letter: decalogues. | |
+5 letters: discourageable, grandiloquence, unacknowledged. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101111 01100111 01110101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e c a l o g u e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0063 0061 006C 006F 0067 0075 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387169677881738771 |
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