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Ordinance
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- 1 A local law, passed by e.g. a city. US
"Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison."
- 2 the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders wordnet
- 3 An edict or decree, authoritative order.; Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament. England
- 4 a statute enacted by a city government wordnet
- 5 An edict or decree, authoritative order.; Detailed legislation that translates the broad principles of the university's charter and statutes into practical effect. Commonwealth, UK
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- 6 an authoritative command wordnet
- 7 An edict or decree, authoritative order.; A law enacted by the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Hong-Kong
- 8 An edict or decree, authoritative order.; A temporary legislation promulgated by the president on the recommendation of the cabinet. India, Pakistan
- 9 A religious practice or ritual prescribed by a church.
- 10 Alternative form of ordnance (“military equipment, especially artillery”). alt-of, alternative, proscribed
"[T]he ſayd gunnes beeing able to hurt but a ſmall diſtance off, and the Iaponians being furniſhed with bꝛazen oꝛdinance vnknowen vnto the Corayans, they pꝛeſently dꝛaue them from their walles, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English ordinaunce (ca. 1300), from Old French ordenance (“decree, command”) (modern French ordonnance), from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from ordinans, the present participle of ordino (“put in order”) (whence ordain). Doublet of ordonnance.
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