the.com/commandment
A rule with God's signature so you can't negotiate the terms.
means A rule or order issued with binding authority, especially one of the biblical directives handed down as absolute law.
from From Old French 'comandement,' built on 'comander' ('to command'), tracing back to Latin 'commendare' — 'com-' (thoroughly) plus 'mandare' (to entrust, to order), the same root that gives us 'mandate.' The word originally just meant an authoritative order of any kind; it was the Ten Commandments' outsized fame in religious tradition that cemented 'commandment' in the popular mind as God's specific brand of non-negotiable rule.
- count
- ten, not nine, not twelve
- first one
- basically no other gods, period
- stone tablets
- the original unbreakable terms of service
- etymology
- from Latin mandare, to put into hand