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Meanings of ordinance in English

Portuguese
ordenamento
Catalan
ordenament
Spanish
ordenamiento

An authoritative rule.

ordenamento
Portuguese
ordenação
Catalan
ordenació
Spanish
ordenación

The act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders.

ordenação
Russian
распоряжение
Portuguese
decreto legislativo
Spanish
decreto de fuerza de ley
Catalan
decret legislatiu

Type of statute.

Related terms
распоряжение
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Examples for "ordinances"
Examples for "ordinances"
1
Others of the earlier ordinances are in Anglo-French; many are in Latin.
Life in a Mediæval City / Illustrated by York in the XVth Centur...
2
And may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
3
They walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
4
And so they went home; and all the ordinances amounted to nothing.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
5
The ordinances declare that the Brahmana is the foremost of all creatures.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
Usage of ordinance in English
1
The institution of marriage is the great SOCIAL ordinance of the race.
The Foolish Virgin
2
Last month, the government introduced the new rape laws in an ordinance.
BBC
3
The ordinance, therefore, reaches everybody concerned in the collection of the duties.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
4
This ordinance of Moses probably suggested the first idea of a hospital.
The Woman's Bible
5
A new convention in South Carolina then repealed the ordinance of nullification.
A School History of the United States
6
The restrictions on playing imposed by the ordinance may be briefly summarized:
Shakespearean Playhouses / A History of English Theatres from th...
7
The reserve artillery, ordinance and supply trains, etc., will precede General Hill.
The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis
8
Another clause of the ordinance has often been the subject of eulogy.
The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830
9
The public preaching of the word is an eminent ordinance of Christ.
The Divine Right of Church Government / Wherein it is proved tha...
10
With them the baptism of their children is the ordinance of name-giving.
The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
11
We have a town ordinance against leaving it in piles to rot.
One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
12
That this ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage.
Report on the Condition of the South
13
The Senator thinks that this result is not attributable to the ordinance.
American Eloquence, Volume 3 / Studies In American Political His...
14
God commanded it, and made it the initiating ordinance to church communion.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
15
Reps. 36, declared that the ordinance emancipated the slaves then held there.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
16
The law here was ordained to life, and the ordinance still stands.
Sermons to the Natural Man
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