octalogue

English

Noun

octalogue (plural octalogues)

1. A series of eight statements.
   • 2000, Rick Rogers, Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-century Bishop, page 128:

     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

   • 2010 page 114

     Thus Tertullian has turned, as it were, the Decalogue into his own octalogue, which he brings into close line with natural precepts.

Coordinate terms

• pentalogue
• hexalogue
• septalogue
• nonalogue
• Decalogue
• duodecalogue