ordinances
Meaning of ordinances
- an authoritative order.
- a religious rite.
his strict observance of religious ordinances was no doubt quickened by the remorse he felt
- archaic term for ordonnance.
Middle English (also in the sense ‘arrangement in ranks’): from Old French ordenance, from medieval Latin ordinantia, from Latin ordinare ‘put in order’ (see ordain).
Information about ordinances
- It is a name.
- The singular form of ordinances is: ordinance.
- Languages in which ordinances is used:
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Hyphenation of ordinances
or-di-nances
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- ordinances is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ordinances synonyms
Meaning an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority:
Meaning an official order that has the force of law:
Meaning an individual rule as part of a system of law:
Meaning an authoritative warning or order:
Meaning a formal authorization or proposition; a decree:
Meaning an authoritative order:
Meaning an authoritative command or instruction:
Meaning one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct or procedure within a particular area of activity:
Meaning an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially one made by a judge:
Meaning a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source:
Meaning an order or principle that must be obeyed:
Meaning an official or authoritative instruction:
Meaning an official order or commission to do something:
Meaning a law that is passed:
Meaning a written law passed by a legislative body:
Meaning a written law passed by Parliament, Congress, etc:
Meaning a Church decree or law:
Meaning a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority:
Meaning (in tsarist Russia) a decree with the force of law:
Meaning (especially in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries) a political manifesto or proclamation:
Meaning a religious or other solemn ceremony or act:
Meaning a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order:
Meaning a formal religious or public occasion, especially one celebrating a particular event, achievement, or anniversary:
Meaning (in the Christian Church) a religious ceremony or ritual regarded as imparting divine grace, such as baptism, the Eucharist and (in the Roman Catholic and many Orthodox Churches) penance and the anoin:
Meaning the practice of observing the requirements of law, morality, or ritual:
Meaning a ceremony of religious worship according to a prescribed form:
Meaning habitual or customary practice, especially as creating a right, obligation, or standard:
Meaning an organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose:
Meaning the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it:
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