octalogue
English
Noun
octalogue (plural octalogues)
- A series of eight statements.
- 2000 Rick Rogers, Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-century Bishop, page 128
- Theophilus proceeds to divide what he will shortly call the "Ten Chapters" […] , or more precisely an octalogue plus a selection of other appropriate materials, into three parts
- 2010 page 114
- Thus Tertullian has turned, as it were, the Decalogue into his own octalogue, which he brings into close line with natural precepts.
- 2000 Rick Rogers, Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-century Bishop, page 128
Coordinate terms
- monologue
- dialogue
- trialogue
- quadralogue
- pentalogue
- hexalogue
- nonalogue