ordonnance
Americannoun
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ordonnances
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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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In Paris an ordonnance of 1288 inhibits the citizens from carrying pointed knives, swords, bucklers, or other similar weapons.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
The Emperor Nicholas has just published an ordonnance, which regulates the pensions to which Russian and foreign actors at the imperial theaters at St. Petersburgh shall be entitled.
From International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various
At that very time, the ordonnance dismissing M. de Tocqueville had been signed, and Louis Napoleon knew that he would probably never see him again.'
From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
He came; and as he wished to strike a decisive blow, he published an ordonnance forbidding the Catholic religion in Holland, as the Protestant faith was forbidden in France.
From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas père
The Ecce Homo of Vienna is another of the works of which both the general ordonnance and the truly Venetian splendour must have profoundly influenced Paolo Veronese.
From The Later Works of Titian by Claude Phillips
"Come now, Governor, do you disapprove of the salute, or of any other of my military ordonnances?"
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
On the publication of the ordonnances, the members of the Chamber who were in Paris met at each others’ houses to discuss measures of resistance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
"Sire," said one of the negotiators, "if in an hour the ordonnances are not rescinded, there will be neither king nor kingdom."
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
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 Henry Reeve
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
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