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COMMANDMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doctrine that is taught
Example:
he believed all the Christian precepts
Synonyms:
commandment; precept; teaching
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("commandment" is a kind of...):
doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commandment"):
Golden Rule (a command based on Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount)
mitsvah; mitzvah ((Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something that is commanded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("commandment" is a kind of...):
bid; bidding; command; dictation (an authoritative direction or instruction to do something)
Instance hyponyms:
Decalogue; Ten Commandments (the biblical commandments of Moses)
Derivation:
command (make someone do something)
