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n. An authoritative command or order.

n. A custom or practice established by long usage.

n. A Christian rite, especially the Eucharist.

n. A statute or regulation, especially one enacted by a city government.

n. a local law or regulation.

n. a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church.

n. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.

n. 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.

n. An established rite or ceremony.

n. Rank; order; station.

n. Ordnance; cannon.

n. Ordering; disposition; arrangement.

n. Orderly disposition; proper arrangement; regular order; due proportion.

n. Order; rank; dignity; position.

n. Preparation; provision; array; arrangement.

n. An appliance; an appointment; an arrangement; equipment: as, ordinance of war; hence, specifically, cannon; ordnance. See ordnance.

n. Established state or condition; regular or established mode of action; proceeding as regulated by authority.

n. Regulation by authority; a command; an appointment; an order; that which is ordained, ordered, or appointed; a rule or law established by authority; edict; decree, as of the Supreme Being or of Fate; law or statute made by human authority; authoritative regulation.

n. Eccles., a religious ceremony, rite, or practice established by authority: as, the ordinance of baptism.

n. In architecture, arrangement; system; order: said of a part or detail as well as of an architectural whole.

n. Synonyms Edict, Decree, etc. See law.

To arm with ordnance.

n. an authoritative rule

n. a statute enacted by a city government

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

"And this ordinance is about specific behavior that violates the rights of others, especially vulnerable people like women and the elderly to be free from behavior that violates their right to be free from fear as they walk the streets."

statute    legislative act   

ordinance of 1787    ordinance of 1784    ordinance of the forest    ordinance of parliament    ordinance of nullification    ordinance of the saladin tithe    ordinance of staples    northwest ordinance    self-denying ordinance   

preparation    provision    rank    order    station    ordnance    cannon    arrangement    law    appointment   

decree    regulation    precept    statute    edict    injunction    rite    sanction    enactment    sacrament