decalogue

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I should like to see oyster culture added, and anything else I am aware that copyright must have a limit, because that is required by the Constitution of the United States, which sets aside the earlier Constitution, which we call the decalogue.

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  1. The ten commandments or precepts given, according to the account in Exodus, by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone. The grossest kind of slander is that which in the decalogue is called bearing false testimony against our neighbour. Barrow, Sermons, I. xvii. Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel No self-reproach. Wordsworth, Old Cumberland Beggar.

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  1. Formerly also decaloge, from Middle English decaloge; from French décalogue = Spanish decálogo = Portuguese Italian decalogo, from Late Latin decalogus, from Greek δεκάλογος, the decalogue, from δέκα, = English ten, + λόγος, a word, speech, from λέγειν, say, speak.
 

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