Meanings
plural hecatologues
- nonce wordrareA code of one hundred rules.
Churches must, Christians must... We are confronted not with new decalogues but with hecatologues, hundreds of commandments.
1969, Lukas Vischer, “Appendix VIII”, in Minutes and Reports of the Twenty-Third Meeting, Geneva: World Council of Churches, →OCLC, page 1892 more examples
Thus stood the law; and of all offences upon the Sergeant's Hecatologue, mutiny was the most heinous; therefore he could not mutiny.
1895, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, volume 2, page 7The new Thelema is likely to be thronged with zealots, in whom the “Thou shalt not” of Sinai has long been superseded by the hecatologue of Fashion. What the result will be of reducing sins to the level of philosophic mistakes we hardly care to contemplate.
1906 April 7, “Those ‘Confounded Fantasies’”, in The Evening Standard and St. James’s Gazette, number 25,520, London, →OCLC, page 3, column 2
Origin
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