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
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen
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
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
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
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
Alfred Marshall
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
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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