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ordinance
[ awr-dn-uhns ]
noun
- an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
Synonyms: order
- a public injunction or regulation:
a city ordinance against excessive horn blowing.
Synonyms: order
- something believed to have been ordained, as by a deity or destiny.
- Ecclesiastical.
- an established rite or ceremony.
- a sacrament.
- the communion.
ordinance
/ ˈɔːdɪnəns /
noun
- an authoritative regulation, decree, law, or practice
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- pre·ordi·nance noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ordinance1
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Origin of ordinance1
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Example Sentences
Call 575-8330 and tell the Fayetteville City Council members and Mayor Jordan to vote ‘no’ on ordinance 119.
Olenicoff was looking to spend $100,000 to $250,000 per the city ordinance requirements.
On October 2011, the prefecture established an ordinance imposing fines and potential jail time.
C.J. Grisham of OpenCarryTexas.org mostly spoke out against a San Antonio ordinance that outlaws the open carry of loaded weapons.
DC, alas, does not have an ordinance against such plants, though local laws against bamboo are apparently rising in popularity.
Who, by not observing the ordinance of Covenanting would practically say, that it ought to be abolished?
That State with which the Church could not be connected, so as to enjoy her own privileges, cannot be the ordinance of God.
The friends of truth cannot justifiably persevere in supporting the British Constitution as the ordinance of God.
Why is an evil government at one period viewed as the ordinance of God, and at another as worthy of being overthrown?
Though some approved of them as the ordinance of God, yet, at the Revolution, the nation declared that they were not.
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