ordonnance
Americannoun
plural
ordonnances-
the arrangement or disposition of parts, as of a building, picture, or literary work.
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an ordinance, decree, or law.
noun
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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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Etymology
Origin of ordonnance
1635–45; < French, alteration of Old French ordenance ordinance, by influence of donner to give
Example Sentences
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The Catholic king was very minute in his inquiries, according to Auton, "du faict et de l'estat des gardes du Roy, et de ses Gentilshommes, qu'il réputoit à grande chose, et triomphale ordonnance."
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by Prescott, William Hickling
Notre ministre secr�taire d'�tat au d�partement de l'int�rieur est charg� de l'ex�cution de la pr�sente ordonnance.
From Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore
The ordonnance against going in disguise looks as if some suspicions had been conceived; and yet their confidence was so great as not to have two thousand guards in the town.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace
Clearness, precision, ordonnance, sobriety, intellectual energy are compensations for his lack of grace, imagination, sensibility, and religious unction.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
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
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