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- noun Plural form of
mandment .
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Examples
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During our brief apsence from this furtive feugtig season adhere to as many as probable of the ten com-mandments. touching purgations and indulgences and in the long run they will prove for your better guidance along your path of right of way.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Ascetic morality represented a kind of classics, having come down from the Old Testament (the Ten Com - mandments) and the early rigorists such as Tertullian or Saint Augustine, whereas casuistical morality re - garded itself as its modern, developmental completion.
CASUISTRY WERNER STARK 1968
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It is true that there are the ten commandments of the Bible; but the com - mandments are made only to be recited before the priests at examinations, and even then are not as exacting as the commandments in regard to the use of ut in conditional propositions.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription] 1890
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Law but to "the word of faith" that is preached by the apostles: it is now that word (as previously it was the Law) that makes manifest the precepts and com - mandments of God and (like the Law in its time, too) it should be constantly on our lips and in our heart.
Latest Articles 2010
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Further; to the example of our blessed Redeemer let us add his com - mandments; and there arises another very forcible motive for his followers to "put away from them all malice, and to be kind one to another."
Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ... 1813
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Surely the most inattentive and thought - less man amongst you, if he thinks at all, must know that obedience to the com - mandments of Christ is on every account the duty of him, who calls himself a Chris* tlan.
Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ... 1813
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They, who are truly pious, have respect unto all God's com - mandments, while they, who affect the charac - ter of piety, resemble a monstrous production in mature, some of whose parts arc 'too large, while Others are proportionally too small, or wholly deficient.
Sermons, on doctrinal and experimental subjects Williston, Seth, 1770-1851 1812
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A caution he has sanctified by his own ex - ample,/made haste, and delayed not to keep thy com - mandments.
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That as Christians they must be under the direction of Christ, and do whatso - ever he commands them; and these are his com - mandments, "that we believe in him, and love one another."
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What must you:, have to enable you to do your duty, and keep God's com - mandments?
The Teacher's Assistant: Consisting of Lectures in the Catechetical Form, Being Part of a Plan ... 1812
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