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Definition of ordinance : 1. 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.
2. An established rite or ceremony.
3. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
4. Ordnance; cannon.
5. Rank; order; station.

Synonyms:

regulating, acquittal, canon, Chapter 11, civil liberties, Chapter 7, enactment, claim, mandate, civil law, order, study at law, act, bring in a verdict, decree, regularisation, regularization, formula, annul, constitution, regulation, command, economy, bill, legislation, statute, commandment, bar, call for, institute, acquit, case law, polity, law, charge, ordination, jurisprudence, bylaw, civil rights, award, citation, prescription, ordering

dictum, adage, doctrine, principle, precept, policy, byword, motto, proverb, bidding, axiom, directive, saw, credo, saying, instruction, rule, teaching, catchword, code, edict, moral

Usage examples:

• In the year 1818, the city of Savannah forbade by an ordinance, the instruction of all persons of color, either free or bond, in reading and writing. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
• Down south they forced business out into the open, requiring by ordinance that all employees shall be paid in the public square. - "Revisiting the Earth", James Langdon Hill.
• " Whenever," the ordinance read, " any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted" to the Union. - "Stories of the Badger State", Reuben Gold Thwaites.