<OL TYPE="1"><LI>anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of any law whatsoever<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a law or rule producing a state approved of God 1a</OL><LI>by the observance of which is approved of God<OL TYPE="2"><LI>a precept or injunction<LI>the rule of action prescribed by reason</OL><LI>of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents<LI>the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love<LI>the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT</OL></OL>