ordinance - use in sentences
Converse of object
- resisteth: Whosoever, therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
- enact: In most cases, nearby communities have not enacted any light ordinances or taken corrective measures.
- observe: We do, however, need to observe these ordinances to show to the world our obedience.
- enforce: Because of fiscal problems, however, the city never enforced the ordinance.
- pass: An ordinance passed by the House of Commons proposing a special court for the trial of the King.
- appoint: Why did he then appoint the ordinances of preaching, prayer, singing of psalms, baptism, and the Lord's supper?
Converse of subject
- prescribe: The Dean of the Faculty shall be eligible for re-appointment subject to the limitations prescribed by the Ordinances.
Adjective modifier
- self-denying: The Tories thus need to adopt a self-denying ordinance.
- unexploded: Access to the site is banned due to the amount of unexploded ordinance littered around the place.
- carnal: Instead of spending the Sunday in carnal ordinances, she passed it partly in idleness, partly in her common business.
- deadly: Twenty nine Kazakh army engineers have destroyed more than three-and-a-half million pieces of deadly ordinance in two yeas of operations.
- holy: They have violated the law and holy ordinances of the Lord our God.
- divine: The divine ordinance of fasting has been pretty much dropped out of our modern church life.
Modifies a noun
- No.: Ordinance No. 186 embodies the current arrangements for fulfillment of this duty.
- survey: Please click here for a local ordinance survey map showing the theater.
Noun used with modifier
- gospel: Why gospel ordinances are thus signified, I may show more particularly afterward.
- creation: Marriage is a creation ordinance of the highest calling.
- draft: The Senatus requested the Court to prepare a draft Ordinance on this matter.
Preposition: of
- baptism: In the New Testament the ordinance of baptism divides the believer from the world.
- th: The Legality of the French Ordinance of 28 th August, 1944.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
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