Ordinance
['ɔːdɪnəns] or ['ɔrdnəns]
Definition
(n.) Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
(n.) A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.
(n.) An established rite or ceremony.
(n.) Rank; order; station.
(n.) Ordnance; cannon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Decree, edict, law, enactment, statute.[2]. Rite, ceremony, observance, sacrament.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Statute, Institute, decree, law, edict, regulation, rule
ANT:Custom, usage, prescription
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Examples
- Prove yourself true ere I cherish you, was his ordinance; and how difficult he made that proof! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the United States an ordinance establishing a curfew, with the purpose of keeping young people off the streets, has existed in Salem, Mass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Solomon was the first of the kings of Judah who disregarded this ordinance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I am the Relieving Officer appointed by eternal ordinance to do my work; I am not held in estimation according as I shirk it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They went so far as to repeal, after a spirited and acrimonious debate, the ordinance of secession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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