decalogue Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the biblical commandments of Moses
    Ten Commandments.

WordNet

Dec"a*logue noun
Etymology
F. décalogue, L. decalogus, fr. Gr. ten + speech, to speak, to say. See Ten.
Definitions
  1. The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

Webster 1913