Citations:hecatologue

English citations of hecatologue

Noun: code of one hundred rules edit

  • 1895, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, volume 2, page 7:
    Thus stood the law; and of all offences upon the Sergeant's Hecatologue, mutiny was the most heinous; therefore he could not mutiny.
  • 1969, Lukas Vischer, “Appendix VIII”, in Minutes and Reports of the Twenty-Third Meeting, Geneva: World Council of Churches, →OCLC, page 189:
    Churches must, Christians must... We are confronted not with new decalogues but with hecatologues, hundreds of commandments.