The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commandment \Com*mand"ment\, n. [OF. commandement, F. commandement.]
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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.
--John xiii. 34. (Script.) One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
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The act of commanding; exercise of authority.
And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment.
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(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. (
--Ex. xx.)
Usage examples of "the commandments".
What had moved Moses was the passionate resolve that his people must not destroy themselves, that they must receive and obey the Commandments which God had sculptured on the stone tablets, and endure.
I say that's where we are headed if the Jibs succeed in killing the Commandments.
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the sins which are committed and can be committed against the commandments of God are not reserved cases.
Those who are advocating the posting of the commandments are destroying the wall of separation.
Beyond this stood inhuman Jerusalem, moated on every side by the commandments of Jehovah.
With it the commandments of God also transport themselves and advance.
And out of the distant echoes he would forge a Book of Vorbis, and Brutha suspected he knew what the commandments would be.
She requests the awestruck witness to go to the village fathers or the local Church authorities and order them to say prayers for the dead, or obey the Commandments, or build a shrine at this very spot in the countryside.
Disobedient is he that disobeys for spite the commandments of God, of his rulers, and of his spiritual father.
They were as faithful to the commandments of the Church as any weak mortal could hope to be.
They also tell him there is a hell, of everlasting fire, and that he will go to it if he doesn't keep the Commandments.
As one who has joined the order and accepted the commandments, I have trouble speaking about such matters, but just think for a moment.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
I say the Ten Commandments were made for man, and not man for the Commandments.
But there are things, like the commandments of God, which we must all take upon trust, my lady.