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Definition of Ten Commandments
1. Noun. The biblical commandments of Moses.
Definition of Ten Commandments
1. Proper noun. A list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ten Commandments
Literary usage of Ten Commandments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"[' Be busy with the ten commandments', Longfellow, Span. Student, Hi. 2 (Cruzado).
... the ten commandments ; ironically, the ten fingers (Stevens). ..."
2. Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Injustice by Charles Elliott (1850)
"SLAVERY involves a breach of all the ten commandments. ... The moral law is
summarily comprehended in the ten commandments, the first four commandments ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"'The Divine Law of the Ten Commandments,' 1848, STO. [Memoir by William Bruce,
prefixed to third (1855) and later editions of the Appeal; White's Swedenborg ..."
4. English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. by John Ashton (1884)
"THE NEW MOSES OK BONAPARTE'S Ten Commandments. Translated from a French Manuscript,
BY SOLIMAN THE TRAVELLER. And when the great man came from Egypt, ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"In the preceding volumes he has treated successively Classic, Judaic, and * The
Social Law of God. Sermons on the Ten Commandments. ..."
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