Middle English Dictionary Entry
decalog n.
Entry Info
| Forms | decalog n. Also decaleg. |
| Etymology | L decalogus; ult. Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The Ten Commandments [quot. (a1387) is a mistranslation].
Associated quotations
- (c1384) WBible(1) Prols.Rom.(NYPubLib 67)299 : [Paul] ordeynede his epistolis to the noumbre of the firste maundementus of the decaloge.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.283 : As Gregory seiþ in Libro decaleg [vr. dialog; L dialogorum], Paulinus, bysshop of þe citee Nola [etc.].