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| English Dictionary: ordinance |
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| 2 results for ordinance |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- ordinance
- n
- an authoritative rule
Synonym(s): regulation, ordinance
- a statute enacted by a city government
- the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"
Synonym(s): ordination, ordinance
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Ordinance \Or"di*nance\, n. [OE. ordenance, OF. ordenance, F.
ordonnance. See {Ordain}, and cf. {Ordnance}, {Ordonnance}.]
1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of
other purveyance. --Chaucer.
2. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of
action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted
usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a
municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.
Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance. --Shak.
By custom and the ordinance of times. --Shak.
Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of
the Lord blameless. --Luke i. 6.
Note: Acts of Parliament are sometimes called ordinances;
also, certain colonial laws and certain acts of
Congress under Confederation; as, the ordinance of 1787
for the government of the territory of the United
States northwest of the Ohio River; the colonial
ordinance of 1641, or 1647. This word is often used in
Scripture in the sense of a law or statute of sovereign
power. --Ex. xv. 25. --Num. x. 8. --Ezra iii. 10. Its
most frequent application now in the United States is
to laws and regulations of municipal corporations.
--Wharton (Law Dict.).
3. (Eccl.) An established rite or ceremony.
4. Rank; order; station. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. [See {Ordnance}.] Ordnance; cannon. [Obs.] --Shak.
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