ordinance Definition
or·di·nance (ôrd′'n əns)
noun
- a direction or command of an authoritative nature
- that which is held to be a decree of fate or of a deity
- an established or prescribed practice or usage, esp. a religious rite
- ☆ a governmental, now esp. municipal, statute or regulation
Etymology: OFr ordenance < ordener: see ordain
ordinance Synonyms
ordinance Law Definition
n
A local law, usually on the
municipality level, that, when fully enacted, has the same effect and force as
a statute within that municipality.
ordinance Usage Examples
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
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