ordonnance
Americannoun
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the arrangement or disposition of parts, as of a building, picture, or literary work.
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an ordinance, decree, or law.
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the proper disposition of the elements of a building or an artistic or literary composition
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an ordinance, law, or decree, esp in French law
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Origin of ordonnance
1635–45; < French, alteration of Old French ordenance ordinance, by influence of donner to give
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As to the plan and ordonnance of the Poem.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
In 1784 there was a fresh confirmation, and Lorient and St Jean de Luz were included in the ordonnance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
If Monseigneur Laurence was the man of healthy culture and cool reason that he is pictured to have been, how great must have been his anguish on the morning when he signed that /ordonnance/!
From The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 by Zola, Émile
M. d'Arblay himself also wrote to Blcher; but before any answer could be returned, a new ordonnance from the Duc de Feltre directed M. d'Arblay to hasten to his post without delay.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny
An ordonnance, issued in the year 1511, specified, that as beasts of burthen were so much multiplied, the Indians should not be made to carry or drag heavy loads.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
In the morning he was going to St. Germain for the day; when his aide-de-camp brought him the newspaper with the ordonnances il tomba de son haut.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry
From 1051 to 1281 there are to be found in the Recueil des ordonnances des rois seven important charters relating to Orleans.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert
In France successive ordonnances from 1330 to 1672 forbade the mixing of two wines together under the penalty of a fine and the confiscation of the wine.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
It cannot be gained by ordonnances of police, by abuse, by violence, by mumming processions, which, in our times, are out of character and ridiculous.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
Yes, Fairfax, longer to palliate, or wilfully be blind to the partial edicts and haughty ordonnances of this proud beauty, were idiotism!
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
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