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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordinance \Or"di*nance\, n. [OE. ordenance, OF. ordenance, F. ordonnance. See Ordain, and cf. Ordnance, Ordonnance.]
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Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.]
--Spenser.They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance.
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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.
Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance.
--Shak.By custom and the ordinance of times.
--Shak.Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
--Luke i. 6.Note: Acts of Parliament are sometimes called ordinances; also, certain colonial laws and certain acts of Congress under Confederation; as, the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River; the colonial ordinance of 1641, or 1647. This word is often used in Scripture in the sense of a law or statute of sovereign power.
--Ex. xv. 25.
--Num. x. 8.
--Ezra iii. 10. Its most frequent application now in the United States is to laws and regulations of municipal corporations.
--Wharton (Law Dict.). (Eccl.) An established rite or ceremony.
Rank; order; station. [Obs.]
--Shak.[See Ordnance.] Ordnance; cannon. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "an authoritative direction, decree, or command" (narrower or more transitory than a law), from Old French ordenance (Modern French ordonnance) or directly from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from Latin ordinantem (nominative ordinans), present participle of ordinare "put in order" (see ordain). By early 14c. senses had emerged of "arrangement in ranks or rows" (especially in order of battle), also "warlike provisions, equipment" (a sense now in ordnance).
Wiktionary
n. 1 a local law, an edict or decree. 2 a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church.
WordNet
n. an authoritative rule [syn: regulation]
a statute enacted by a city government
the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination" [syn: ordination]
Wikipedia
Ordinance may refer to:
This article is about ordinances in canon law. For the term in Protestant religious ritual, see Ordinance (Christianity).
An ordinance or ecclesiastical ordinance is a type of law, legal instrument, or by-law in the canon law of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and in Calvinism.
This article is about the term "ordinance" as used by some Protestants for religious rituals. For the term in the canon law of some Christian faiths, see Ordinance (canon law).
Ordinance is a Protestant Christian term for religious rituals, especially baptism and communion.
Depending on the denomination, some churches also practice headcovering and footwashing as ordinances. While the term "ordinance" is not often used in Scripture, the Apostle Paul uses it when introducing his teaching on headcovering in (KJV).
Ordinance in Belgium refers to legislation passed by the Brussels Parliament in exercise of its regional competences and by the United Assembly of the Common Community Commission. In principle, ordinances have the same legal force as laws and decrees, but the Federal Government has the authority to suspend ordinances if, in its view, it could jeopardise the role of Brussels as the capital of Belgium or the international role of Brussels, sometimes seen as the "capital of the European Union".
Ordinances are temporary laws that are promulgated by the President of India on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet. They can only be issued when Parliament is not in session. They enable the Indian government to take immediate legislative action. Ordinances cease to operate either if Parliament does not approve of them within six weeks of reassembly, or if disapproving resolutions are passed by both Houses. However, in such cases, an ordinance can be re-issued. It is also mandatory for a session of Parliament to be held within six months of passing an ordinance.
In the Latter Day Saint movement, there are numerous ordinances, which are sacred rites and ceremonies that have spiritual and symbolic meanings. Ordinances are physical acts which signify or symbolize an underlying spiritual act; for some ordinances, the spiritual act is the finalization of a covenant between the ordinance recipient and God. Ordinances are always performed by the authority of the priesthood and in the name of Jesus Christ. The term has a meaning roughly similar to that of the term " sacrament" used by other Christian denominations.
Some ordinances, such as baptism, confirmation and the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, are similar to those practiced by other Christian denominations. Other Latter Day Saint ordinances are unique and usually performed within a Latter Day Saint temple. These ordinances include the endowment and sealings.
In a United Kingdom universities, an ordinance is detailed legislation that translates the broad principles of the university's charter and statutes.
All UK universities created before 1992 are established by Royal Charter. Under their charters, they are empowered to make statutes, but any changes to these require the approval of the Privy Council. However, the charter and statutes empower the university to create and modify ordinances. These constitute more detailed legislation that translates the broad principles enshrined in Charter and Statutes into practical effect. Typically any change to ordinances will require the agreement of the governing body of the university. Ordinances frequently require or allow the promulgation of regulations which can be approved by lesser bodies.
Because of their different history, Universities created since 1992 (the so-called " New Universities") have a different scheme of governance, and a different vocabulary to accompany it.
Some university systems influenced by the UK model, particularly in the Commonwealth, use the word ordinance in the same way.
Usage examples of "ordinance".
The latter privilege was deemed to have been abridged by city officials who acted in pursuance of a void ordinance which authorized a director of safety to refuse permits for parades or assemblies on streets or parks whenever he believed riots could thereby be avoided and who forcibly evicted from their city union organizers who sought to use the streets and parks for the aforementioned purposes.
Jersey City ordinance requiring the obtaining of a permit for a public assembly in or upon the public streets, highways, public parks, or public buildings of the city and authorizing the director of public safety, for the purpose of preventing riots, disturbances, or disorderly assemblage, to refuse to issue a permit when after investigation of all the facts and circumstances pertinent to the application he believes it to be proper to refuse to issue a permit.
But the ordinance had pretty much cleared the streets of those women who had bought cheaper busking licenses and were using them to cover their other activities.
Hence, the nature, objects, and benefits of personal and national Covenanting are exhibited in a manner fitted to attract to that ordinance the minds and hearts of men.
A similar Ordinance sequestered the restored property of emigrant families.
General Government had ample reason to believe it was about to go through the farce of enacting an ordinance of secession, when the treason was summarily stopped by the dispersion of the traitors.
The result of the election had hardly been declared when the disunion movement in the South, long threatened and carefully planned and prepared, broke out in the shape of open revolt, and nearly a month before Lincoln could be inaugurated as President of the United States seven Southern States had adopted ordinances of secession, formed an independent confederacy, framed a constitution for it, and elected Jefferson Davis its president, expecting the other slaveholding States soon to join them.
After issuing these ordinances, with others of minor importance, and after repealing martial-law in the district of Montreal, on the 5th of May the council was prorogued.
Supreme Court has struck down licensing ordinances, even in respect of a form of communication which may be prohibited entirely.
Order vvas giuen that all the ordinance throughout the towne, and vpon all the platformes, vvhich vvas aboue fifty peeces al ready charged, should be shot off in honor of the Queenes Maiesties Coronation day, being the seuententh of Nouember, after the yearly custome of England, which was so aunswered againe by the ordinance out of all the ships in the fleete which novv was come neere, as it was straunge to heare such a thondering noise last so long together.
Captaine Sampson tooke the prisoner, and willed him to shevve that he had promised, the vvhich he could not, or at least vvould not: but they searching all suspected places, found two peeces of ordinance, one of yron, an other of brasse.
They had manned them both, and planted their ordinance for that present, and sudden alarum vvithout the gate, and also some troopes of small shot in Ambuscado vpon the hievvay side.
Statutes and ordinances providing for the paving and grading of streets, the cost thereof to be assessed on the front foot rule, do not, by their failure to provide for a hearing or review of assessments, generally deprive a complaining owner of property without due process of law.
In excluding slavery north of the line, the same language is employed as in the Ordinance of 1787.
Prussians, not being strong enough to defend the town, the soldiers mutinied against their officers, whereupon a capitulation was agreed on, and the gates were opened to the French commander, who made his troops enter with a great deal of order, assured the magistrates that care should be taken to make them observe a good discipline, and published two ordinances, one for the security of the religion and commerce of the city, and the other for prohibiting the exportation of corn and forage out of that principality.