n. A command; a mandate; an order or injunction given by authority; a charge; an authoritative precept.n. Specifically Any one of the ten injunctions, engraved upon tables of stone, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, according to the account in Exodus. See decalogue.n. Authority; command; power of commanding.n. In old English law, the offense of instigating another to transgress the law.n. The ten fingers.n. The lines in an apple extending from the stem through the pulp.