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English
Noun
nonalogue (plural not attested)
- A series of nine statements.
1836, William Nevins, Thoughts on Poetry, page 21:these Christians who have their head away off at Rome, subtract one from the ten commandments; and you know if you take one from ten, only nine remain. So they have but nine commandments. Theirs is not a Decalogue, but a Nonalogue.
2012, Gary T. Cole, Biology of Conidial Fungi, Volume 1, Volume 1, page 74:In view of the utter disregard for the Code with which new taxa are being described even in modern times, and in view of the inaccuracies in some of the features reported, I am tempted to extend the above into a nonalogue, if only to stress the need for good sense.
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