octalogue

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noun

A series of eight statements.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounoctalogue (plural octalogues)

plural octalogues

  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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

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Chicago

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