单词 | ten commandments |
释义 | > as lemmasTen Commandments b. spec. (plural). The Ten Commandments or precepts of the Mosaic Decalogue.Often applied to the table or tables of these required by law to be publicly set up in English parish churches. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > Mosaic dispensation > decalogue lawc1000 Ten WordsOE Ten Commandmentsc1280 the ten preceptsa1325 Decalogue1382 testimony1535 command1608 society > faith > artefacts > furniture > other furniture > [noun] > table of commandments Ten Commandments1560 c1280 Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 16 Of þe x commandemens..þe first comondement is þis, O God we ssul honuri. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6056 Þat keped noght þe comandmentes ten. c1440 York Myst. xx. 139 Whilke callest þou þe firste comaundment? 1560 Queen Elizabeth I Let. in E. Cardwell Documentary Ann. Church Eng. No. lv To order that the tables of the commandments may be comlye set or hung up in the east end of the chauncell. 1561 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 103 Paid for the table of commaundementes and the new kalender..xviijd. 1637 Bk. Common Prayer Church of Scotl. Communion Then shall the Presbyter, turning to the people, rehearse distinctly all the Ten Commandements. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 88 An altar piece gilt and carved, with a glory and the king's arms above the commandments. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 107 They will let you break all the commandments, if you do it natively, and with spirit. Ten Commandments †ten bones, the ten fingers: by these ten bones (ellipt. these ten), also ten ends of flesh and blood, an oath (obsolete). Ten Commandments (also †ten bebode, ten bodewords, ten hests, etc.), the Mosaic decalogue; slang, the ten fingers; see also commandment n. 2, 3 †ten groats, formerly a lawyer's fee, or that paid to the priest for reading the marriage service (obsolete). ten tribes, the lost tribes of Israel; humorously, the Jews, as moneylenders.extracted from tenadj.n.adv.< as lemmas |
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