comaundement
Middle English
Alternative forms
- comaundment, comandement, comandment, comanment, comament, comawndment, comondement, comoundement, commaundement, commandement, commandmend, commawndement, commawment, commondment, commowndment, cumandement
Etymology
From Old French comandement; equivalent to comaunden + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˌmau̯nd(i)ˈmɛnt/, /kuˌmand(i)ˈmɛnt/, /kɔ-/
- (with stress retraction) IPA(key): /kuˈmau̯nd(i)mɛnt/, /kuˈmand(i)mɛnt/, /kɔ-/
Noun
comaundement (plural comaundementes)
- directive, order, request
- law, rule, principle
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon ·i· 5:3, page 115v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- foꝛ þis is þe charite of god .· þat we kepe hiſe comaundementis / ⁊ his maundementis ben not heuy.
- Now this is the love of God: us keeping his commandments. And his commandments aren't onerous.
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- control, authority, rule
Descendants
- English: commandment
References
- “commaundement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-12.