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An established rite or ceremony. 4. Rank; order; station. Shak. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer. 2. A rule established

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An established rite or ceremony. 4. Rank; order; station. Shak. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer. 2. 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. Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance. Shak. By custom and the ordinance of times. Shak. Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. Luke i. 6. Note: Acts of Parliament are sometimes called ordinances; also, certain colonial laws and certain acts of Congress under Confederation; as, the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River; the colonial ordinance of 1641, or 1647. This word is often used in Scripture in the sense of a law or statute of sovereign power. Ex. xv. 25. Num. x. 8. Ezra iii. 10. Its most frequent application now in the United States is to laws and regulations of municipal corporations. Wharton .

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  • JUDGMENT
    The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
  • ENACTMENT
    1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
  • EDICT
    A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as
  • EDICTAL
    Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • STATUTE
    of statuere to set, station, ordain, fr. status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constitute, 1. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law;
  • LEGISLATION
    The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Lyttelton.
  • MANIFESTO
    A public declaration, usually of a prince, sovereign, or other person claiming large powers, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives in reference to some act done or contemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose
  • DECISION
    1. Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. Bp. Pearson. 2. The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
  • DECREET
    The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
  • ORDERLINESS
    The state or quality of being orderly.
  • ORDER
    1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
  • ORDERING
    Disposition; distribution; management. South.
  • PROCLAMATION
    1. The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication. King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. 1 Kings xv. 22. 2. That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared; a published
  • ORDINANCE
    An established rite or ceremony. 4. Rank; order; station. Shak. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer. 2. A rule established
  • ORDERABLE
    Capable of being ordered; tractable. Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
  • MANDATE
    A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation. (more info) charge, order, orig., to put into one's hand; manus hand + dare to give: cf. F. mandat.
  • ORDERER
    1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates. 2. One who gives orders.
  • DETERMINATION
    A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head. (more info) 1. The act of determining, or the state of being determined. 2. Bringing to an end; termination; limit. A speedy determination of that
  • DECREE
    1. To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • BENEDICT; BENEDICK
    A married man, or a man newly married.
  • SELF-DETERMINATION
    Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • VALEDICTORIAN
    One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
  • PREDETERMINATION
    The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
  • UNDECREED
    Not decreed. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
  • PREDICTIONAL
    Prophetic; prognostic.
  • SUBORDINANCE; SUBORDINANCY
    Subordinacy; subordination. Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple.
  • PREDICTOR
    One who predicts; a foreteller.
  • UNPREDICT
    To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.
  • UNDETERMINATION
    Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
  • PREJUDGMENT
    The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
  • BENEDICTIONAL
    A book of benedictions.

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