Ordonnance Definition

ôrdn-əns, ôrdô-näɴs
noun
The proper or orderly arrangement of parts, as in a painting or literary work.
Webster's New World
In France, an ordinance, law, or decree.
Webster's New World

(art) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.

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Origin of Ordonnance

  • French variant of Old French ordenance an arranging ordinance

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French. See ordinance.

    From Wiktionary

Ordonnance Sentence Examples

  • The consideration of temperature as affecting the use of a standard pitch was not attended to when the French government issued its ordonnance.

  • This transformation was confirmed, rather than effected, by the ordonnance of 1439.

  • This was contained implicitly in the ordonnance of 1439, which at the same time suppressed the seigniorial taille, as competing too closely with the royal taille by imposing a double burden on the taxpayer.

  • He relied more than ever on the support of the popular party, which then obtained the reforming Ordonnance Cabochienne (so called from Simon Caboche, a prominent member of the gild of the butchers).

  • The fleur-de-lis was first definitely connected with the French monarchy in an ordonnance of Louis le Jeune (c. 1147), and was first figured on a seal of Philip Augustus in 1180.

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