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octalogue en · NOUN

Etymology

From octa- + -logue.

Meanings

1. A series of eight statements.
   • Thus Tertullian has turned, as it were, the Decalogue into his own octalogue, which he brings into close line with natural precepts. 2010 page 114
   • 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 2000, Rick Rogers, Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-century Bishop, page 128:

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Coordinates

duodecalogue · pentalogue · hexalogue · Decalogue · nonalogue · septalogue