Definitions for ordinance

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ordinance or·di·nance

Spelling: [awr-dn-uh ns]

IPA: /ˈɔr dn əns/

Ordinance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 547 anagrams from letters in ordinance (acdeinnor).

Definitions for ordinance

noun

1. an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
2. a public injunction or regulation:
3. something believed to have been ordained, as by a deity or destiny.
4. Ecclesiastical. an established rite or ceremony. a sacrament. the communion.

Origin of ordinance

1275-1325; Middle English ordinaunce (Old French ordenance) Medieval Latin ordinantia, derivative of Latin ordinant- (stem of ordināns), present participle of ordināre to arrange. See

Examples for ordinance

“With the recent incident out of Sanford, we reviewed the ordinance,” Rodriguez said.

Call 575-8330 and tell the Fayetteville City Council members and Mayor Jordan to vote ‘no’ on ordinance 119.

"Your Majesty's ordinance as to duelling is receiving our best attention," he assured me.

It is the old Icelandic ordinance, but it has gone from Iceland.

On October 2011, the prefecture established an ordinance imposing fines and potential jail time.

C.J. Grisham of OpenCarryTexas.org mostly spoke out against a San Antonio ordinance that outlaws the open carry of loaded weapons.

Where is an ordinance about pleasure similar to that about pain to be found in your laws?

And the sacred "ordinance," with all other proprieties, was left in ruins that day.

"If there were not an ordinance against the hurling of missiles," finished the widower.

DC, alas, does not have an ordinance against such plants, though local laws against bamboo are apparently rising in popularity.