comaundement

• comandement, comandment, comaundment, commandement, commaundement, commondment, commowndment, comondement, comoundement
• comawndment, commawndement, commawment (East Anglia); comament, comanment, commandmend, cumandement, cumandment (Northern, Northeast Midland)

From Old French comandement; equivalent to comaunden +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /kuˌmau̯nd(i)ˈmɛnt/, /kuˌmand(i)ˈmɛnt/, /kɔ-/
• (with stress retraction) IPA^(key): /kuˈmau̯nd(i)mɛnt/, /kuˈmand(i)mɛnt/, /kɔ-/

comaundement (plural comaundementes)

1. directive, order, request
   • 1471 September 28 [1464], Raoul le ffeure, translated by Willyam Caxton, [T]he recuyell of the hiſtoryes of Troye, [London], translation of Le recueil de histoires de Troye (in Middle French), published c. 1474; republished by H. Oskar Sommer, editor‎^[1]volume I, London: David Nutt, 1894, →OCLC, leaf 1:

     […] at the comaūdemēt of the right hye myghty and vertuouſe Prynceſſe hys redoubtyd lady . Margarete by the grace of god . Ducheſſe of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband &c

     […] at the command of the truly high, mighty, and virtuous princess, his redoubtable lady, Margaret, by the grace of God Duchess of Burgundy, Lothier, Brabant, etc.

   • 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folios 480, verso – 481, recto:

     My lorde ſeyde ẜ Bedwere youre cõmaundement ſhaỻ be done, and lyghtly brynge you word a gayne.

     "My lord," said Sir Bedivere, "your order will be carried out, and I'll promptly give you news [about it] afterwards."

2. law, rule, principle
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[2], published c. 1410, Joon ·i· 5:3, folio 115, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     foꝛ þis is þe charite of god .· þat we kepe hiſe comaundementis / ⁊ his maundementis ben not heuy.

     Now this is the love of God: us keeping his commandments. And his commandments aren't onerous.

3. control, authority, rule

• English: commandment

• “commaundement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 January 2020.