ordinance
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dn 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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| —n | |
| an authoritative regulation, decree, law, or practice | |
| [C14: from Old French ordenance, from Latin ordināre to set in order] | |
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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
in ranks or rows" (especially in order of battle), also "warlike provisions, equipment" (a sense now in ordnance).
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Example sentences
Actually using them in non-lab environments, such as deserts or mountains, can result in a higher rate of unexploded ordinance.
Sharia, although embodying various aspects, is essentially a religious ordinance.
No honking or construction work within a hundred metres of a testing site-by local ordinance.
Replace these things with a traditional town-planning ordinance that prescribes a more desirable everyday environment.
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