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noun
1.
an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
2.
a public injunction or regulation: a city ordinance against excessive horn blowing.
3.
something believed to have been ordained, as by a deity or destiny.
4.
Ecclesiastical.
a.
an established rite or ceremony.
b.
a sacrament.
c.
the communion.
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English ordinaunce (< Old French ordenance) < Medieval Latin ordinantia, derivative of Latin ordinant- (stem of ordināns), present participle of ordināre to arrange. See ordination, -ance
1275–1325; Middle English ordinaunce (< Old French ordenance) < Medieval Latin ordinantia, derivative of Latin ordinant- (stem of ordināns), present participle of ordināre to arrange. See ordination, -ance
Related forms
pre·or·di·nance, noun
Synonyms
1,2. order.
1,2. order.
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Ordinance
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Example Sentences
- Claims were also made that the ordinance was simply a way for the township to gain extra cash without resorting to new taxes.
- Consulting the city code, he found an obscure ordinance prohibiting deformed and disabled people from appearing in public.
- But some who oppose the ordinance say that there are other, deeper, ramifications.
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Word Origin & History
ordinance
c.1300, "an authoritative direction, decree, or command" (narrower or more transitory than a law), from O.Fr. ordenance, from M.L. ordinantia, from L. ordinantem (nom. ordinans), prp. of ordinare "put in order" (see ordain). By early 14c. senses had emerged of "arrangement
EXPANDin ranks or rows" (especially in order of battle), also "warlike provisions, equipment" (a sense now in ordnance).
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