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Dec⋅a⋅logue

  [dek-uh-lawg, -log]
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–noun
Ten Commandments. Ex. 20:2–17.
Also, dec⋅a⋅logue, Dec⋅a⋅log, dec⋅a⋅log.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME decalog < LL decalogus < MGk, Gk dekálogos. See deca-, -logue
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Dec·a·logue or Dec·a·log   (děk'ə-lôg', -lŏg')   
n.  

  1. Bible The Ten Commandments.

  2. A fundamental set of rules having authoritative weight.


[Middle English decalog, from Late Latin decalogus, from Greek dekalogos : deka, ten; see dek in Indo-European roots + logos, word, pronouncement; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]
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