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Ordinance

Ordinance Meaning & Definition
Ordinance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ordinance?

[n] the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"
[n] a statute enacted by a city government
[n] an authoritative rule

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ordinance: ordination | regulation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ordinance: act | appointment | bill | brevet | bull | bylaw | canon | ceremonial | ceremony | code | commandment | convention | declaration | decree | decree-law | decreement | decretal | decretum | dictate | dictation | dictum | diktat | duty | edict | edictum | enactment | fiat | form | form of worship | formality | formula | formulary | function | general principle | golden rule | guideline | guiding principle | holy rite | imperative | institution | ipse dixit | jus | law | legislation | lex | liturgy | maxim | measure | mitzvah | mode of worship | moral | mystery | norm | observance | office | order of worship | ordonnance | practice | precept | prescribed form | prescript | prescription | principium | principle | proclamation | pronouncement | pronunciamento | regulation | rescript | rite | ritual | ritual observance | rituality | rubric | rule | ruling | sacrament | sacramental | senatus consult | senatus consultum | service | settled principle | solemnity | standard | standing order | statute | tenet | ukase | working principle | working rule

See Also | age limit | appointment | assignment | assize | designation | holy orders | laying on of hands | legislative act | naming | prescript | rule | speed limit | statute

Ordinance In Webster's Dictionary

\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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