maundement
Middle English
Alternative forms
- mandement, mawndement, maundment, mawndmente, mandment
Etymology
From Old French mandement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmau̯nd(i)mɛnt/, /ˈmand(i)mɛnt/
Noun
maundement (plural maundementes)
- The entirety of a religion's law or strictures.
- A rule which forms part of a religion's strictures.
- 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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- A directive or order (especially a governmental or legal one)
- (rare) Authorisation, permission.
- (rare) The act of rule; control.
Descendants
- English: mandement, mandment (obsolete)
References
- “maundement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-12.