COMMANDMENT, n. 1. A command; a mandate; an order or injunction given by authority; charge; precept.Why do ye transgress the commandment of God. Matt. 15.This is the first and great commandment. Matt. 22.A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. John 13.2. By way of eminence, a precept of the decalogue, or moral law, written on tables of stone, at Mount Sinai; one of the ten commandments. Ex. 34.3. Authority; coercive power.
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