hecatologue

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English

Noun

hecatologue (plural hecatologues)

  1. (nonce word) A code of one hundred rules.
    • 1895, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, volume 2, page 7:
      Thus stood the law; and of all offences upon the Sergeant's Hecatologue, mutiny was the most heinous; therefore he could not mutiny.
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