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ordinance Definition

or·di·nance (ôrd′'n əns)

noun

  1. a direction or command of an authoritative nature
  2. that which is held to be a decree of fate or of a deity
  3. an established or prescribed practice or usage, esp. a religious rite
  4. ☆ a governmental, now esp. municipal, statute or regulation

Etymology: OFr ordenance < ordener: see ordain

ordinance Synonyms

ordinance

n.

law, statute, directive, mandate; see command 1, law 3. See syn. study at law.

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

  • 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.