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Definition: Commandment |
CommandmentNoun1. Something that is commanded. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "commandment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Commandment \Com*mand"ment\, noun. [Old French expression commandement, French commandement.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of receiving commands, foretells you will be unwisely influenced by persons of stronger will than your own. To read or hear the Ten Commandments read, denotes you will fall into errors from which you will hardly escape, even with the counsels of friends of wise and unerring judgment. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Commandment The eleventh commandment. Thou shalt not be found out. "After all, that Eleventh Commandment is the only one that is vitally important to keep in these days."- B. H. Buxton: Jennie of the Prince's, iii. 314. The ten commandments. The ten fingers or nails. (Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., i. 3.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: CommandmentSynonym: Precent. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Commandment |
| English words defined with "commandment": Mandment ♦ Precent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "commandment": Image of God ♦ RELIGIOUS PAINTER ♦ Sabbath, Seventy weeks. (references) |
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Screenplays | I have broken the fourth commandment, padre. (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) No, that is not the fourth commandment! (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) Zorak, one more commandment out of you, and thou shalt be blasted! (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) What is the greatest Commandment of them all? (Godspell; writing credit: David Greene; John-Michael Tebelak) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Eleventh Commandment (1974) Fourth Commandment (1926) The New Commandment (1925) Pimple's Tenth Commandment (1916) The Fifth Commandment (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The 12th Commandment : Thou shalt not hassle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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John 15:12 | This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Of this point therefore we are to note, that sith men naturally have no full and perfect power to command whole politic multitudes of men, therefore utterly without our consent, we could in such sort be at no man's commandment living. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance. |
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| "Commandment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Commandment" is used about 76 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% | 76 | 38,217 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "commandment". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hakupha | N/A | Biblical | A commandment of the mouth |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "commandment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | urdhër (behest, bidding, command, decoration, decree, dictate, dictation, edict, injunction, mandate, order, prescript, prescription, warrant, word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وصية إحدى الوصايا العشر, وصية (behest, bequest, charge, device, injunction, instruction, legacy, precept, testament, will). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | безусловна заповед, декрет (act, constitution, decree, doom, edict, ordinance, rescript, sanction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 誡命 , 誡 (prohibit), 指令, '律 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přikázání (behest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرمان (Bull, Charter, Command, Commission, Decree, Edict, Errand, Institute, Mandate, Ordinance, Ordonnance, Precept, Sanction, Word), حکم (Arbiter, Canon, Commission, Decree, Doom, Edict, Mandate, Ordinance, Ordonnance, Pardon, Precept, Rule, Sentence, Statute, Warrant, Writ), دستورخدا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | käsky (command, order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | commandement (command, control). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gebot (bid, bidding, command, decree, law, offer, order, precept, presentation, proposal, requirement, rule, tender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εντολή (assignation, assignment, behest, command, injunction, instruction, mandate, order, precept, prescript, prescription, requisition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצו" (behest, command, duty, law, obligation, precept), "בר" (cause, manner, reason, word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | parancsolat (behest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | firman (saying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | comandamento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 警め (admonition, binding, bondage, caution, guard, precept, punishment, warning), 'め (admonition, binding, bondage, caution, guard, precept, punishment, warning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いましめ (admonition, binding, bondage, caution, guard, precept, punishment, warning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 계명. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sarey (command, decree, dictate, directive, enjoin, injunction, instruct, mandate, order, precept, prescribe), abbyrts. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommandmentcay preceito (dictate, dictation, lemma, norm, precept, prescript, regulation, rule), ordem (appointment, array, behest, bidding, command, commission, dictate, dictation, disposal, fiat, formation, genus, group, kilter, line-up, mandate, order, orderliness, ordinance, precept, prescript, range, regularity, sequence, signal, summons, writ), mandamento. (various references) comandament (command, rule), poruncã (behest, bidding, charge, command, dictation, injunction, order, word), ordin (bidding, category, class, command, commission, decree, degree, dictate, dictation, direction, fiat, injunction, mandate, order, ordinance, service, warrant, word). (various references) заповедь. (various references) ithne (bidding, command, injunction). (various references) zapovest (command, dictate, order, ordinance). (various references) orden (arrangement, array, bidding, character, command, count, decision, decree, dictation, direction, discipline, disposal, disposition, field, force, function, imperative, instruction, issue, medal, nature, order, orderliness, sequence, warrant, word, writ), mandato (behest, command, dictate, dictation, fiat, injunction, instruction, mandate, order, term, warrant), mandamiento (command, exile, order). (various references) budord (commandments). (various references) emir (ameer, amir, behest, bidding, charge, command, decree, dictate, dictation, direction, disposal, disposition, emir, fiat, imperatival, imperative, jussive, mandate, order, precept, prescription, ukase, word, word of command), buyruk (behest, command, ipse dixit, order, rescript), allah'ın emri. (various references) наказ (behest, command, decree, decretal, delegation, dictate, injunction, mandate, order, prescript, telling, wish, writ), заповідь (behest, precept). (various references) điều răn. (various references) gorchymyn (command, order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mandata, mandate, mandati, mandatis, mandato, mandatorum, mandatum, mandatumque. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 38 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Auth estin prwth kai megalh entolh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hoc est maximum et primum mandatum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þt is þt mæste & þt fyrmeste be-bod. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | This is the firste and the moste maundement. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | This is the fyrst and the chefe comaundement. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | This is the first and great commandment. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | This is the first and great commandment. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | This is the first and greatest rule. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 38 |
| Cebuano | Mao kana ang daku ug unang sugo. |
| Chinese | 這 是 誡 命 中 的 第 一 、 " 是 最 大 的 。 |
| Croatian | To je najveæa i prva zapovijed. |
| Danish | Dette er det store og første Bud. |
| Dutch | Dit is het eerste en het grote gebod. |
| Finnish | Tämä on suurin ja ensimmäinen käsky. |
| French | C`est le premier et le plus grand commandement. |
| German | Dies ist das vornehmste und größte Gebot. |
| Hungarian | Ez az elsõ és nagy parancsolat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Itulah perintah yang terutama dan terpenting! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Inilah hukum yang besar dan yang terutama. |
| Latvian | Ðis ir lielâkais un pirmais bauslis! |
| Manx Gaelic | Shoh yn chied as yn ard-anney. |
| Maori | Ko te tuatahi tenei, ko te kupu nui. |
| Norwegian | Dette er det største og første bud. |
| Portuguese | Este é o grande e primeiro mandamento. |
| Rumanian | ,,Aceasta este cea dintki, wi cea mai mare poruncq. |
| Russian | УЙС ЕУФШ ЕТЧБС Й ОБЙ'ПМШЫБС ЪБ ПЧЕ"Ш; |
| Shuar | Núiti emka Ashí akupkamu nankaamas Enentáimtustinia nu. |
| Spanish | Éste es el grande y el primer mandamiento. |
| Swahili | Hii ndiyo amri kuu ya kwanza. |
| Swedish | Detta är det yppersta och förnämsta budet. |
| Uma | Toe-mi parenta to meliu kabohe-na, pai' to lomo' -na mpu'u. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "commandment": commandments. (additional references) | |
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"Commandment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comandment, Commandement, commanden, commandeth, comminment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "commandment" (pronounced kuma"ndmunt) |
| 6 | -n d m u n t | amendment, impoundment. |
| 5 | -d m u n t | bombardment. |
| 4 | -m u n t | abandonment, abatement, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, claimant, Clement, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-m-m-m-n-n-o-t" | |
-3 letters: cantoned. | |
-4 letters: candent, command, commend, comment, condemn, connate, contemn, contend, momenta, montane, nonmeat, tacnode. | |
-5 letters: acnode, ancone, atoned, cadent, canned, cannot, canoed, canted, canton, coated, comade, comate, conned, daemon, deacon, decant, docent, donate, madmen, mammet, mammon, manned, moaned, moated, moment, nocent, octane, omenta, tandem, tanned, tendon, tommed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-m-m-m-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: commandments. | |
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