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noun

Commandment n.

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate. "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another."

(Script.) One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

The act of commanding; exercise of authority. "And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment."

(Law) The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

The Commandments, The Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, or summary of God's commands, given to Moses at Mount Sinai. ()

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"Commandment" Quotes from Famous Books

... better let the old man alone, Cora. Or you'll have your head bitten off. I don't want to break the fifth commandment by saying anything irreverent of our grandfather, but indeed, indeed, indeed it is as much as one's life, or at least as one's temper, is worth to speak to him," said the ...

— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... Cuthbert will little dream of the harm they have done," said Donovan. "I think I understand as I never understood before the burning indignation of that rebuke to the Pharisees 'Full well ye reject the commandment of god that ye may ...

— We Two • Edna Lyall

... XV:12-13—"This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's ...

— The Gaunt Gray Wolf - A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob • Dillon Wallace

... the eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not get caught," outweighed all the rest. It was not because he especially needed the assistance of Page that he had hired him, although he could serve him in a way; but it was that he could use him as a means ...

— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn

... information, given in a dry, free and easy style seldom found at the present day in any work of the kind. Thus it tells us, among the anecdotes of ELLIOT the missionary, that an Indian in a religious conference asked how GOD could create man in his own image, since according to the second commandment it was forbidden to ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

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