Definitions
the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
Word origin
From Middle English ordinaunce (ca. 1300), from Old French ordenance (“decree, command”) (modern French ordonnance), from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from ordinans, the present participle of ordino (“put in order”) (whence ordain). Doublet of ordonnance.
Used in a sentence
“Alderman Richard Mell then pushed through antipeddling ordinances in the 33rd and 47th wards.”
“Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, / The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,”
“[T]he ſayd gunnes beeing able to hurt but a ſmall diſtance off, and the Iaponians being furniſhed with bꝛazen oꝛdinance vnknowen vnto the Corayans, they pꝛeſently dꝛaue them from their walles, […]”
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