Commandment

1. n. The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.
2. n. An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.
3. n. One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
4. n. The act of commanding; exercise of authority.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.