Definition of Ordinance

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Ordinance

Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.

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.

An established rite or ceremony.

Rank; order; station.

Ordnance; cannon.

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Ordinance Quotations

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
Alfred Marshall

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Jonathan Mayhew

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
Orson Pratt

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
John Perry Barlow

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas

Ordinance Translations

ordinance in French is injonction
ordinance in German is Verordnung, Verordnung {f}
ordinance in Italian is ordinanza, ordinamento
ordinance in Spanish is disposicion, ordenanza
ordinance in Swedish is stadga

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