ordinancen.

Brit.

/ˈɔːd(ᵻ)nəns/,

/ˈɔːdn̩əns/, U.S.

/ˈɔrd(ə)nəns/

Forms: Middle English odinance, Middle English ordeinaunce, Middle English ordenauns, Middle English ordenaunse, Middle English ordenawns, Middle English ordennaunce, Middle English ordeynance, Middle English ordinans, Middle English ordinanse, Middle English ordinauns, Middle English ordinaunse, Middle English ordnanse, Middle English ordnaunce, Middle English ordonans, Middle English ordonaunce, Middle English ordonnaunce, Middle English ordrenance, Middle English ordynauns, Middle English ordynaunse, Middle English ordynavnce, Middle English ordynawuns, Middle English ordyunce (transmission error), Middle English 1700s ordonance, Middle English–1500s ordenance, Middle English–1500s ordenaunce, Middle English–1500s ordeynaunce, Middle English–1500s ordonnance, Middle English–1500s ordynance, Middle English–1500s ordynaunce, Middle English–1600s ordinaunce, Middle English– ordinance, 1500s ordynans, 1600s ord'nance, 1600s–1700s ordnance; Scottish pre-1700 ordainance, pre-1700 ordenance, pre-1700 ordenans, pre-1700 ordinanch, pre-1700 ordinans, pre-1700 ordinaunce, pre-1700 ordinence, pre-1700 ordinens, pre-1700 ordines, pre-1700 ordnance, pre-1700 ordonance, pre-1700 ordonnance, pre-1700 ordynance, pre-1700 ordynans, pre-1700 ordynaunce, pre-1700 ordynawns, pre-1700 1700s– ordinance. See also ordnance n.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ordenance.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ordenance, ordenaunce, ordeignaunce, ordeignance, ordeynaunce, ordinance, ordinaunce, ordonnance, and Middle French ordenance, ordonnance, ordrenance (French ordonnance ) decision made by a superior (c1180 in Old French), ruling made by person or people with appropriate authority (1260), ceremonial (1263), arrangement in a certain order (1269), provisions (13th cent.), legislative decree issued directly without parliamentary vote (14th cent.), machinery, engine (1377 in Anglo-Norman), disposition of troops in battle (later 14th cent.), arrangement in regular sequence (c1393), extreme unction (1407 in plural), large body of troops (1465), cavalry company (end of the 15th cent.), religious ceremonial (1501), decision of a judge (1510), arrangement of elements of a building in relation to each other (1548), medical prescription (1558), sketch for a picture, arrangement of elements in a painting (1621), number and disposition of columns in architecture (1676) < ordener ordain v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare post-classical Latin ordinantia authoritative decree (first half of the 14th cent. in a continental source; from c1425 in British sources), ordering, arrangement (c1362 in a British source), military equipment (15th cent. in British sources), company of troops (late 15th cent. in a continental source), but the more common noun in corresponding senses was classical Latin ōrdinātiō ordination n. A significant semantic development apparently within English is shown by ordnance n., which was originally the same word, now distinguished in spelling. For subsequent reborrowing of the French word in specific senses see ordonnance n.

I. Something decreed, ordained, or prescribed.

†1. The decision of a judge or referee which settles a disputed matter; the authoritative settlement of a disagreement between two or more parties. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > settlement of dispute, arbitration > [noun] > decision of

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a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 33 Ant sal be amercied grefliche, after þe ordinaunce of iustises.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 1090 (MED) Now ich ise sir iustise, Þine ordinaunce no be nouȝt wise.

1411 Rolls of Parl. III. 650/1 This is the ordenance that Thomas Archebisshop of Canterbury and Richard Lord the Grey..haven made betwen William Lord the Roos on that oon partie, and Robert Tirwhit..on that other partie.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 79 This ordynance thaim thocht the best.

?1553 H. Dekyn tr. Herman V of Wied Brefe Declar. Dewty Maried Folkes sig. Avii ^v The ordynans that God made betwene man and wyfe.

2. Law. An authoritative direction, decree, or command. In more restricted sense: a public injunction or rule of narrower scope, less permanent nature, or less constitutional character than a law or statute, such as a decree of a sovereign or (now esp. in U.S.) an enactment of a municipal or other local body.In English History, the decrees of the Ordainers (with the king's assent) in 1310 were ‘ordinances’; the name is also given to the Ordinance of the Forest (33 & 34 Ed. I), and the Ordinance of the Staple (27 Ed. III, st. 2), etc. The Acts of the Long Parliament after 1641 were at first called Ordinances; one of these was the Self-denying Ordinance of 1645, ordaining that no member of parliament should from that time on hold any civil or military office. After 1649 the name ‘act’ was officially used; but as all these ‘acts’ were expunged from the statute book at the Restoration, they are usually historically referred to as ‘ordinances’.In reference to French History, ‘the Ordinances’ are especially those of Charles X in 1830, overthrowing the constitution and suspending the liberty of the press (see also ordonnance n. 2a, 2b).In the United States, ‘ordinance’ is used as the equivalent of British ‘by-law’.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute

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c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) 687 in PMLA (1931) 46 125 Ordenaunce he leten make, Þat neuer seþþe wer forsake, ȝif ani þef þat men fond..Non abide no schuld be þer, Þat þe þef honged no wer.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 80 (MED) Yeise ben ye ordynaunse of yis gilde.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1461 Swyche ys goddys ordynaunce: ‘For veniaunce to take veniaunce’.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. iv. 86 Whan that Theodoric..comaundede that no man schulde byen no coorn til his corn were soold..Boece withstood that ordenaunce.

1477 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 27 Rychard Dyschforth..toke & selld j stranges man heirreng..agans ordonans of the ton.

a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. xxxi. f. 76 (MED) Ordenaunces of pryuate lawes in reawmes or in othir communalteis be called statutes.

1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 12 §5 Every Person..that shall take any License contrary to this Ordinance.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 850/1 There were ordinances made for the..gouernment of the Realme, by the Prelates, Earles and Barons, which were confirmed with the sentence of excommunication agaynst all them that should goe about to breake the same.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 30 He shall obey the ordinances of the Sergeant Maior.

a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) v. 230 An Ordinance is a word having a more private and less powerful signification then the word Law hath; for it is a Law but of a secundary power, enacted by a Corporation, Company or Commission.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 298 They should have an Ordinance of Parliament for their Indemnity.

1756 S. Johnson Mem. King of Prussia in Lit. Mag. Nov.–Dec. 384 The ordinance of 1667, by which Lewis xiv. established an uniformity of Procedure.

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 185 Laws and ordonances, which are framed according to the aspect of the day.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 34 The most popular justification for the self-denying ordinance..was soon found at Naseby.

1830–1 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 182/1 On the 25th of July, the king [sc. Charles X.] signed three Ordinances which superseded the Constitution.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvii. §292 The Statute is primarily a legislative act, the ordinance is primarily an executive one;..the royal notification of the ordinance simply asserts that the process enunciated in the ordinance will be observed from henceforth.

1904 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 295 An ordinance was adopted in Buffalo to limit the height of billboards to seven feet.

1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. ii. 49 He recognized that not only may the executive, as in England, share in the task of legislation, but also may issue ordinances when the legislature is not in session.

1964 C. V. Wedgwood Trial of Charles I (1967) iv. 93 Three days later, with Henry Marten acting as their brisk spokesman, they placed the completed draft of the ordinance for the King's trial before the House.

1987 E. Gorman Autumn Dead 68 Technically, there was a city ordinance against drinking out here, but none of the cops in the three white squad cars said anything.

a. That which is ordained or decreed by God, a god, or fate; a dispensation, decree, or appointment of God, providence, or destiny. Now rare.

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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate

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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > a decree of fate

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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 124 Ine alle his workes, he him porueyþ þet hi by do by þe ordinance [Fr. l'ordenance; c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues ordenaunce] and by þe wylle of god.

?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) (1884) cxliv. 18 Goddess weyes are his ordinaunce & willes.

a1450 Dis. Women (Sloane) in Proc. Royal Soc. Med. (1916) 9 38 Who so euer he be þat displesith a woman for herr sekenesse þat sche hath of þe ordynance of god..dispisith nought allonely hem but god that sendith hem such seckenesse.

a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xxix. 82 By thy most just Ordinance, yea, by thy merciful Ordinance also.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 146 Let Ord'nance Come as the Gods fore-say it.

1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia v. i. 71 Great Souls are above Ordinances.

1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 11 Whosoever, therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation.

1860 Ld. Tennyson Tithonus in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 175 Why should a man desire..To..pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause?

1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. ix. 49 Because He has seen fit to seal off from their lands the rains of heaven for these past three years, they have rebelled against His ordinance and seek to supplant those whom He has set in authority over them.

†b. An ordained or appointed place, condition, course, etc. Obsolete. rare. Middle Eng. Dict. suggests ‘ordained place’ or ‘assigned meaning’ as possible glosses for quot. c1475.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > ordained or appointed condition

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c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 21 (MED) In þe secunde partie of þe firste ventricle [of the brain] is ordeyned or founden ymagynatif vertu, þe whiche resseyueþ of þe comoun witt þe spicis and þe foormes of sensible þingis as þei weren taken of þe comoun witt wiþouten forþ, representynge þere owne schap & ordynauncis vnto þe memoratif vertu þat folowiþ here aftirward.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 132 [He] passis till his ordinaunce, quhare he is ordanyt tobe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 66 If you would consider the true cause,..Why all these things change from their Ordinance, Their Natures, and pre-formed Faculties.

a. A practice or usage authoritatively enjoined or prescribed; esp. a religious or ceremonial observance, as the sacraments, etc. Now rare except in sense 4b.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > instance or form of

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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 11292 Þei bare þe childe..Into þe temple of Ierusalem For to do of him þat day þat ordenaunce [a1400 Vesp. settenes] was of þe lay.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Titus (Royal) Prol. He warneth Tite and enfourmeth hym of the ordynaunce of presthod and of spiritual conuersacioun.

?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxi. f. 14 (MED) Also þe bihouiþ lufen and wurschipen in þin herte alle lawes and ordeinaunces mad bi prelates and rulours of Holi Kirke.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Pvi Gods woord contemned..his sacraments conculcate, his ordinances neglected.

?c1615 Chron. Kings of Scotl. (1830) 32 Conranus..institutitt the ordinance of inquisicioun, callit in Scottis indytment or dittay.

a1649 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1853) II. 376 Private members making speeches in the church assemblies to the disturbance and hindrance of the ordinances.

1707 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts (ed. 4) ii. vii. 542 Candidates of this sacred Ordinance [sc. Confirmation].

1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. in Wks. (1825) IV. 59 Civil society is but the ordinance and institution of man.

1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church ii. 72 Reciting the Nicene creed..before the administration of the Eucharist, to guard that ordinance against Arian intruders.

1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (1868) i. 3 Many..presented themselves as candidates for his baptism in implicit faith that the ordinance was divine.

1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 46 The ordinances of abstinence are designed, in part at all events, to keep the will master of the appetites.

b. spec. (chiefly in the Baptist Church). Either of the sacraments of communion or baptism.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun]

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1854 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 15 ‘We have’, says Bunsen, ‘no treatise of Hippolytus about the Eucharist’... But he avails himself of the opportunity to give his own peculiar and partial view of the intent..of that ordinance.

1886 J. Banvard Plymouth & Pilgrims 164 The Sabbath being communion day, they partook of the ordinance of the supper.

a1892 C. H. Spurgeon Autobiogr. (1897) iv. 26 The table, on which were spread the bread and the wine on days when they had the ordinance; I think that was the correct phrase when our good folks intended ‘the communion’.

1976 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 19 July (Campaign '76 section) 25 Rituals, like formal beliefs, are pared to a minimum. The two main ones, called ‘ordinances’ instead of sacraments, are the Lord's Supper and baptism.

1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1269/1 Focus on..the two Protestant sacraments, or ‘ordinances’ as they are often called in the South, affords insight into the dynamics of regional faith.

2001 Press & Sun-Bull. (Binghamton, N.Y.) (Nexis) 3 Mar. (Living section) 6 d We practice believer's baptism by immersion and observe the ordinance of the Lord's Supper regularly as described in God's Word.

†5. An authoritative instruction as to how to proceed or act; an established set of principles; a system of government; authority; discipline. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [noun]

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?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 101 Of Godes ordinance he forsoke þe schap.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 26 For þis ende shulden clerkes..preie God þat his ordrenance [v.r. ordenaunce] were kepte in his strengþe.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 58 After þe constitucioun and ordinaunce of þe rewmes whare þai dwell.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 11 Cyvyle ordynance ys but as a mean to bryng man to observe thys law of nature.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 7 At the returne from the Captivity things were only restor'd after the ordinance of Moses and David.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 743 She has presum'd t'annul And abrogate..The total ordonance and will of God.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 141 Then the voice Of Ida sounded, issuing ordinance.

†6. Material goods; apparatus; contents; furniture. Obsolete.In sense ‘military equipment’ see ordnance n.

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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking

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1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 133/1 The Tynne, Stuff, and Ordenaunce to the same Myne belongyng.

1512 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 608 Cynctours, moldes, ordynaunces, and euery other thyng concernyng the same vawtyng.

1552 Inventory Church Goods St. Andrew's, Norwich in Norfolk Archæol. (1865) 7 52 Itm the ordynance of the sepulcre prised at v^s.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vi. 38 (margin) [Was the house finished] with all the appurtenances therof, and with all the ordinaunces therof.

II. The action of decreeing, ordaining, or prescribing, and related senses.

†7. The action or process of making ready, preparing, or providing; preparation; provision; a preparatory step or measure; the result of preparation or provision (of something). Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun]

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c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 49 Þei..maden alle here ordenaunce To werren uppon þe king of France.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 677 (MED) Hire ordinance She made so that whan Constance Was come forth with the Romeins..A riche feste sche hem made.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iii. 535 And Troilus, that al this purveiaunce Knew..Hadde hereupon ek mad gret ordinaunce.

c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 12 That he may wisely purveye and make contrary ordynaunce ayens hem.

c1534 MS Add. 6113 lf. 106 The counterpoynte clothe of golde, the curteyns of whyte sarcenette..were of the quenes owne ordonnance.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 1025 The first ordinance or first draughts..which are doone with a cole. Adumbratio.

1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 124 But there was..no ordinance, no prouision made for the abolishing of their barbarous Customes and manners.

8. The action of ordering or regulating; regulation; direction; management; authoritative appointment or dispensation; control; disposal. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds vii. 53 Ȝoure fadris..token the lawe in ordynaunce of aungels [L. in dispositione angelorum].

c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2915 I putte me hoolly in youre disposicioun and ordinaunce.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 83 His doughter Custance was wedded to Bretayn, With William's ordinance, vnto the erle Alayn.

?a1430 T. Hoccleve Mother of God l. 43 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 53 Thow shapen art by goddes ordenance, Mene for vs.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxij^v Committyng the lyfes..whole to the dukes discrecion and ordinaunce.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 15 Stablit be the infinite diuyne ordinance.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 5 That Ordinance of God, whereby every creature is governed and guided.

1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 6 To resist magistrates in the execution of their offices, is really to resist the will and ordinance of God himself.

1885 J. Ruskin Pleasures Eng. 139 Unless music exalt and purify, it is not under St. Cecilia's ordinance.

a1918 W. Owen Fates in Poems (1931) 79 Those I hold my trustiest friends may prove Agents of Theirs to take me if I stray From fatal ordinance.

†9.

a. The institution, ordination, or foundation of a thing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Heb. iv. 3 Sotheli, the werkis maad parfyt fro the ordynaunce of the world [L. ab institutione mundi].

c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 375 (MED) Hee, þe wisdame of god, atte his laste soper, in þe ordynaunce of this heelful sacramente, seyde thus: ‘þis is my body.’

b. The arrangement of plans; devising, contriving, or planning; (also) a device, contrivance, or plan. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2258 And al be it so that youre emprise be establissed and ordeyned by gret multitude of folk, yet thar ye nat accomplice thilke ordinaunce but yow like.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 510 Gan he and I..Right for to speken of an ordinaunce, How we the Grekes myghten disavaunce.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxix. 209 Commune loos sprong in englond thurgh coniectyng and ordynaunce of the frere prechours, that sire Edward of Carnariuan was alyue.

?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 39 (MED) Certayn Lollardes..hadde purposid..to haue slayn the kyng..but the king..was warned of their fals purpos and ordenaunce.

†10. Arrangement in lines, ranks, or rows, esp. in order of battle; battle array or a mode of battle array; (also) a display of military force; an army in battle order. Cf. ordnance n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun]

compassinga1300

compassmentc1300

ordainingc1350

ordinancec1385

imaginationa1393

conjectmentc1400

before-castinga1425

forecastinga1425

imagininga1449

conjectinga1450

machinationc1550

platforming1560

plotting1593

contrivement1599

agitation1600

contrival1602

contrivage1610

projection1611

projectment1611

contrivance1647

politics1650

digestion1680

planning1730

contriving1751

scheme1790

scheming1813

schemery1822

replanning1853

mapping1856

macroplanning1966

the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan

redeeOE

devicec1290

casta1300

went1303

ordinancec1385

intentc1386

imaginationa1393

drifta1535

draught1535

forecast1535

platform1547

ground-plat?a1560

table1560

convoy1565

design1565

plat1574

ground-plota1586

plot1587

reach1587

theory1593

game1595

projectment1611

projecting1616

navation1628

approach1633

plan1635

systema1648

sophism1657

manage1667

brouillon1678

speculationa1684

sketch1697

to take measures1698

method1704

scheme1704

lines1760

outline1760

measure1767

restorative1821

ground plan1834

strategy1834

programme1837

ticket1842

project1849

outline plan1850

layout1867

draft1879

dart1882

lurk1916

schema1939

lick1955

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > battle array

arraya1375

ordinancec1385

fielda1393

front1487

stight1489

order of battle?1548

battle array1552

battle1577

battle-rayc1600

battalia1613

war1667

line of battle1695

ORBAT1975

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2567 To the lystes rit the compaignye By ordinaunce thurgh out the citee large.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 178 (MED) Alle þe Sarazins conseile in þe schaft was writen & alle þer ordinance.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 38 He assembled all his folke and putte hem in fayr ordenaunce of bataylle.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 101 Soyn thar ordinans brak thai.

a1500 (?1452) in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. in 15th Cent. (1913) 298 (MED) And the Duke of Yorke picched his ffeld aboute Dertford whith greet ordinaunce.

1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 5424 in Wks. (1931) I. 359 I was Pape Iulius manfullye Passe to the feilde.., With ane rycht aufull ordinance.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 455 A whole troupe..of horsmen may ride vpright vnder them in ordinance of battell.

†11. Appointment to office; esp. admission to office in the Christian Church; = ordination n. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > [noun] > instance of

ordinancea1387

point?c1430

preferment1536

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 141 His successour schal come to þe primat of Caunterbury, and he schal take his ordynaunce [L. ordinationem; ?a1475 anon. tr. ordinacion] of hym.

1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 (MED) Nichol..did crye openlich that no man sholde come to chese her Mair but such as were sompned, & tho that were sompned were of his ordynaunce & after his auys.

1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 184/1 To make or ordeine ony Officer..of whom the makyng and ordenaunce..longed to you.

a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 754 An Emperour..ordeyned hym a wyse man to be stwarde of þe foreste That hyte Ionathan..So it happende sone after þe ordenaunce of þe Emperoure Þat þis Ionathas toke charge of þis foreste.

12.

†a. Arrangement in regular sequence or proper relative position; the quality or disposition (in things or matters) of conforming to rule; ordered, arranged, or regulated condition; order, regularity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun]

ordinancec1390

compositionc1400

order?a1425

rayc1440

ordination1531

dispose1603

divisiona1616

compositure1625

composure1628

method1640

tactics1650

allocation1656

rangement1674

schematism1701

arrangement1715

orderedness1724

groupment1837

the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement

ordinancec1390

pointa1393

direction1407

order?a1425

framec1475

orderliness1571

form1600

decorum1610

shape1633

disposurea1637

c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2303 Salomon..seith that wordes that ben spoken discretly, by ordinaunce [v.rr. ordinance, ordenaunce; ordre], beth honycombes, for they yeue swetnesse to the soule.

c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 961 The chambres for tarraye in ordynance After my lust.

c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 21 Astronomye is dividid in foure parties..In the ordinaunce of the sterres, In disposicioun of þe signes, [etc.].

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 154 She kepte her astate so noble and of so good ordenaunce.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 69 (MED) She [sc. Hope]..toke vpon hir withowt envy or pryde the office for to speke, whych Feyth lefte hir by humilite and by ordynaunce of wourship.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxvii. B This is the ordinaunce of the dorekepers..to mynister in the house of the Lorde.

a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Siv That lustie Lord, leuand in gret plesour Did loce that land, and honest ordinance.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 36 The Ordinance and Design of most of the Royal and great Gardens in and about Paris are of his Invention.

b. Methodical arrangement of artistic or literary material in accordance with some plan or rule of composition; (Architecture) systematic collocation of architectural components according to set rules; (also) a characteristic series of such components, an architectural order. See also ordonnance n. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > arrangement of parts > specific architecture

ordinance?a1425

ordonnancec1660

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > form or order of a work > forming or arranging a work

ordinance?a1425

turning1586

collocation1605

ordonnancec1660

casting1865

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. iv. 183 Of which thyng all the ordenaunce [L. seriem] and the sothe..I have put it in scripture and in remembraunce.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 248 Whech were ageyn þe ordinauns of oure book.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bviij/1 To deuyde the mater by chapytres in the best ordynaunce that I shal conne.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. i. 1 I..haue enterprysed this hystory on y^e forsaid ordynaunce and true fundacion.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 317 Virio the Painters Invention is..admirable, his Ord'nance full, & flowing.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Ordnance, In Architecture, the giving to all the parts of a Building, the just Dimensions and Quantity, which are requisite, according to the Model.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §108. 75 With regard to the columnar ordinances, the Doric was at this period cultivated to a higher degree of grace.

1862 J. Fergusson Hist. Mod. Archit. iii. ii. 185 It is not easy to ascertain how far the ordinance of the present building was influenced by his designs.

1885 Academy 1 Aug. 69/2 Want of ordinance has led Major T. to perpetual repetition.

1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 42 This group of churches..presents closer affinities, in its internal ordinance, with Norman Romanesque than with any other northern school.

†13. = company of ordonnance at ordonnance n. 2b. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 11 Charles the seuenth reduced these ordinances [It. militia] to perfection, made the number certaine, appointed their wages.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 11 He likewise deuided these ordinances into men at armes and archers.

†14. Rank, order (in the state). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > [noun]

estatec1230

statec1300

rowa1350

qualityc1425

calling1477

range1494

line1528

stature1533

respect1601

station1603

gradationa1616

ordinancea1616

repute1615

spherea1616

distance1635

impression1639

civils1650

footing1657

regimen1660

order1667

sect1709

caste1791

status1818

position1829

social status1833

standpoint1875

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. ii. 11 Things created To..be still, and wonder, When one but of my ordinance stood vp To speake of Peace, or Warre.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ordinance
释义	ordinancen. Brit. /ˈɔːd(ᵻ)nəns/, /ˈɔːdn̩əns/, U.S. /ˈɔrd(ə)nəns/ Forms: Middle English odinance, Middle English ordeinaunce, Middle English ordenauns, Middle English ordenaunse, Middle English ordenawns, Middle English ordennaunce, Middle English ordeynance, Middle English ordinans, Middle English ordinanse, Middle English ordinauns, Middle English ordinaunse, Middle English ordnanse, Middle English ordnaunce, Middle English ordonans, Middle English ordonaunce, Middle English ordonnaunce, Middle English ordrenance, Middle English ordynauns, Middle English ordynaunse, Middle English ordynavnce, Middle English ordynawuns, Middle English ordyunce (transmission error), Middle English 1700s ordonance, Middle English–1500s ordenance, Middle English–1500s ordenaunce, Middle English–1500s ordeynaunce, Middle English–1500s ordonnance, Middle English–1500s ordynance, Middle English–1500s ordynaunce, Middle English–1600s ordinaunce, Middle English– ordinance, 1500s ordynans, 1600s ord'nance, 1600s–1700s ordnance; Scottish pre-1700 ordainance, pre-1700 ordenance, pre-1700 ordenans, pre-1700 ordinanch, pre-1700 ordinans, pre-1700 ordinaunce, pre-1700 ordinence, pre-1700 ordinens, pre-1700 ordines, pre-1700 ordnance, pre-1700 ordonance, pre-1700 ordonnance, pre-1700 ordynance, pre-1700 ordynans, pre-1700 ordynaunce, pre-1700 ordynawns, pre-1700 1700s– ordinance. See also ordnance n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ordenance. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ordenance, ordenaunce, ordeignaunce, ordeignance, ordeynaunce, ordinance, ordinaunce, ordonnance, and Middle French ordenance, ordonnance, ordrenance (French ordonnance ) decision made by a superior (c1180 in Old French), ruling made by person or people with appropriate authority (1260), ceremonial (1263), arrangement in a certain order (1269), provisions (13th cent.), legislative decree issued directly without parliamentary vote (14th cent.), machinery, engine (1377 in Anglo-Norman), disposition of troops in battle (later 14th cent.), arrangement in regular sequence (c1393), extreme unction (1407 in plural), large body of troops (1465), cavalry company (end of the 15th cent.), religious ceremonial (1501), decision of a judge (1510), arrangement of elements of a building in relation to each other (1548), medical prescription (1558), sketch for a picture, arrangement of elements in a painting (1621), number and disposition of columns in architecture (1676) < ordener ordain v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare post-classical Latin ordinantia authoritative decree (first half of the 14th cent. in a continental source; from c1425 in British sources), ordering, arrangement (c1362 in a British source), military equipment (15th cent. in British sources), company of troops (late 15th cent. in a continental source), but the more common noun in corresponding senses was classical Latin ōrdinātiō ordination n. A significant semantic development apparently within English is shown by ordnance n., which was originally the same word, now distinguished in spelling. For subsequent reborrowing of the French word in specific senses see ordonnance n. I. Something decreed, ordained, or prescribed. †1. The decision of a judge or referee which settles a disputed matter; the authoritative settlement of a disagreement between two or more parties. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > settlement of dispute, arbitration > [noun] > decision of ordinancea1325 awardc1386 arbitrament1426 wardc1460 warding1485 awardment1561 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 33 Ant sal be amercied grefliche, after þe ordinaunce of iustises. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 1090 (MED) Now ich ise sir iustise, Þine ordinaunce no be nouȝt wise. 1411 Rolls of Parl. III. 650/1 This is the ordenance that Thomas Archebisshop of Canterbury and Richard Lord the Grey..haven made betwen William Lord the Roos on that oon partie, and Robert Tirwhit..on that other partie. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 79 This ordynance thaim thocht the best. ?1553 H. Dekyn tr. Herman V of Wied Brefe Declar. Dewty Maried Folkes sig. Avii ^v The ordynans that God made betwene man and wyfe. 2. Law. An authoritative direction, decree, or command. In more restricted sense: a public injunction or rule of narrower scope, less permanent nature, or less constitutional character than a law or statute, such as a decree of a sovereign or (now esp. in U.S.) an enactment of a municipal or other local body.In English History, the decrees of the Ordainers (with the king's assent) in 1310 were ‘ordinances’; the name is also given to the Ordinance of the Forest (33 & 34 Ed. I), and the Ordinance of the Staple (27 Ed. III, st. 2), etc. The Acts of the Long Parliament after 1641 were at first called Ordinances; one of these was the Self-denying Ordinance of 1645, ordaining that no member of parliament should from that time on hold any civil or military office. After 1649 the name ‘act’ was officially used; but as all these ‘acts’ were expunged from the statute book at the Restoration, they are usually historically referred to as ‘ordinances’.In reference to French History, ‘the Ordinances’ are especially those of Charles X in 1830, overthrowing the constitution and suspending the liberty of the press (see also ordonnance n. 2a, 2b).In the United States, ‘ordinance’ is used as the equivalent of British ‘by-law’. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute doomc825 i-setnessec900 setnessc950 edict1297 statutec1300 purveyancea1325 assize1330 ordinancec1330 decreetc1374 constitutionc1380 decree?a1400 sizea1400 stablementc1400 edictionc1470 stablishment1473 ordinationc1499 estatutea1514 placarda1530 prescript1532 golden bull1537 rescript1545 institute1546 institution1551 constitutec1561 sanction1570 decretal1588 ordain1596 decretum1602 invention1639 scite1656 dispositive1677 bull1696 ordonnance1702 subnotation1839 senatus consultum1875 fatwa1989 c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) 687 in PMLA (1931) 46 125 Ordenaunce he leten make, Þat neuer seþþe wer forsake, ȝif ani þef þat men fond..Non abide no schuld be þer, Þat þe þef honged no wer. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 80 (MED) Yeise ben ye ordynaunse of yis gilde. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1461 Swyche ys goddys ordynaunce: ‘For veniaunce to take veniaunce’. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. iv. 86 Whan that Theodoric..comaundede that no man schulde byen no coorn til his corn were soold..Boece withstood that ordenaunce. 1477 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 27 Rychard Dyschforth..toke & selld j stranges man heirreng..agans ordonans of the ton. a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. xxxi. f. 76 (MED) Ordenaunces of pryuate lawes in reawmes or in othir communalteis be called statutes. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 12 §5 Every Person..that shall take any License contrary to this Ordinance. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 850/1 There were ordinances made for the..gouernment of the Realme, by the Prelates, Earles and Barons, which were confirmed with the sentence of excommunication agaynst all them that should goe about to breake the same. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 30 He shall obey the ordinances of the Sergeant Maior. a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) v. 230 An Ordinance is a word having a more private and less powerful signification then the word Law hath; for it is a Law but of a secundary power, enacted by a Corporation, Company or Commission. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 298 They should have an Ordinance of Parliament for their Indemnity. 1756 S. Johnson Mem. King of Prussia in Lit. Mag. Nov.–Dec. 384 The ordinance of 1667, by which Lewis xiv. established an uniformity of Procedure. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 185 Laws and ordonances, which are framed according to the aspect of the day. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 34 The most popular justification for the self-denying ordinance..was soon found at Naseby. 1830–1 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 182/1 On the 25th of July, the king [sc. Charles X.] signed three Ordinances which superseded the Constitution. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvii. §292 The Statute is primarily a legislative act, the ordinance is primarily an executive one;..the royal notification of the ordinance simply asserts that the process enunciated in the ordinance will be observed from henceforth. 1904 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 295 An ordinance was adopted in Buffalo to limit the height of billboards to seven feet. 1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. ii. 49 He recognized that not only may the executive, as in England, share in the task of legislation, but also may issue ordinances when the legislature is not in session. 1964 C. V. Wedgwood Trial of Charles I (1967) iv. 93 Three days later, with Henry Marten acting as their brisk spokesman, they placed the completed draft of the ordinance for the King's trial before the House. 1987 E. Gorman Autumn Dead 68 Technically, there was a city ordinance against drinking out here, but none of the cops in the three white squad cars said anything. 3. a. That which is ordained or decreed by God, a god, or fate; a dispensation, decree, or appointment of God, providence, or destiny. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate shapeOE whatec1200 destiny1340 ordinance1340 predestinya1425 eure1430 predestin1558 fate1667 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > a decree of fate ordinance1340 weirda1400 pre-ordinance1486 foreordinance1530 fore-purpose1551 ordainment1605 foreordination1620 fatality1763 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 124 Ine alle his workes, he him porueyþ þet hi by do by þe ordinance [Fr. l'ordenance; c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues ordenaunce] and by þe wylle of god. ?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) (1884) cxliv. 18 Goddess weyes are his ordinaunce & willes. a1450 Dis. Women (Sloane) in Proc. Royal Soc. Med. (1916) 9 38 Who so euer he be þat displesith a woman for herr sekenesse þat sche hath of þe ordynance of god..dispisith nought allonely hem but god that sendith hem such seckenesse. a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xxix. 82 By thy most just Ordinance, yea, by thy merciful Ordinance also. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 146 Let Ord'nance Come as the Gods fore-say it. View more context for this quotation 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia v. i. 71 Great Souls are above Ordinances. 1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 11 Whosoever, therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation. 1860 Ld. Tennyson Tithonus in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 175 Why should a man desire..To..pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause? 1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. ix. 49 Because He has seen fit to seal off from their lands the rains of heaven for these past three years, they have rebelled against His ordinance and seek to supplant those whom He has set in authority over them. †b. An ordained or appointed place, condition, course, etc. Obsolete. rare. Middle Eng. Dict. suggests ‘ordained place’ or ‘assigned meaning’ as possible glosses for quot. c1475. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > ordained or appointed condition ordinancec1475 c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 21 (MED) In þe secunde partie of þe firste ventricle [of the brain] is ordeyned or founden ymagynatif vertu, þe whiche resseyueþ of þe comoun witt þe spicis and þe foormes of sensible þingis as þei weren taken of þe comoun witt wiþouten forþ, representynge þere owne schap & ordynauncis vnto þe memoratif vertu þat folowiþ here aftirward. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 132 [He] passis till his ordinaunce, quhare he is ordanyt tobe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 66 If you would consider the true cause,..Why all these things change from their Ordinance, Their Natures, and pre-formed Faculties. View more context for this quotation 4. a. A practice or usage authoritatively enjoined or prescribed; esp. a religious or ceremonial observance, as the sacraments, etc. Now rare except in sense 4b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > instance or form of churchOE servicelOE rightlOE observancea1250 officec1300 preachingc1350 ritec1350 ceremonyc1380 usea1382 prayerc1384 form1399 ordinancea1400 ordera1425 worship?a1425 worshippingc1443 common prayer1493 common servicea1500 ordinarya1513 celebrity1534 church servicea1555 religious exercise1560 function1564 agend1581 church office1581 liturgy1593 Common Prayer service1648 ritualities1648 ceremonial1672 hierurgy1678 occasion1761 religiosities1834 cursus1865 joss-pidgin1886 worship service1929 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 11292 Þei bare þe childe..Into þe temple of Ierusalem For to do of him þat day þat ordenaunce [a1400 Vesp. settenes] was of þe lay. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Titus (Royal) Prol. He warneth Tite and enfourmeth hym of the ordynaunce of presthod and of spiritual conuersacioun. ?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxi. f. 14 (MED) Also þe bihouiþ lufen and wurschipen in þin herte alle lawes and ordeinaunces mad bi prelates and rulours of Holi Kirke. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Pvi Gods woord contemned..his sacraments conculcate, his ordinances neglected. ?c1615 Chron. Kings of Scotl. (1830) 32 Conranus..institutitt the ordinance of inquisicioun, callit in Scottis indytment or dittay. a1649 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1853) II. 376 Private members making speeches in the church assemblies to the disturbance and hindrance of the ordinances. 1707 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts (ed. 4) ii. vii. 542 Candidates of this sacred Ordinance [sc. Confirmation]. 1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. in Wks. (1825) IV. 59 Civil society is but the ordinance and institution of man. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church ii. 72 Reciting the Nicene creed..before the administration of the Eucharist, to guard that ordinance against Arian intruders. 1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (1868) i. 3 Many..presented themselves as candidates for his baptism in implicit faith that the ordinance was divine. 1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 46 The ordinances of abstinence are designed, in part at all events, to keep the will master of the appetites. b. spec. (chiefly in the Baptist Church). Either of the sacraments of communion or baptism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] massOE servicelOE sacrament?c1225 table1340 commoningc1384 the Lord's Supperc1384 Eucharista1400 oblation?a1425 communion1440 sacrifice?1504 Lord's Table1533 Maundy1533 the Supper?1548 unbloody sacrifice1548 mystery1549 communication1550 banquet1563 liturgy1564 table service1593 synaxis1625 mysteriousness1650 second service1655 nagmaal1833 ordinance1854 table prayer1858 1854 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 15 ‘We have’, says Bunsen, ‘no treatise of Hippolytus about the Eucharist’... But he avails himself of the opportunity to give his own peculiar and partial view of the intent..of that ordinance. 1886 J. Banvard Plymouth & Pilgrims 164 The Sabbath being communion day, they partook of the ordinance of the supper. a1892 C. H. Spurgeon Autobiogr. (1897) iv. 26 The table, on which were spread the bread and the wine on days when they had the ordinance; I think that was the correct phrase when our good folks intended ‘the communion’. 1976 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 19 July (Campaign '76 section) 25 Rituals, like formal beliefs, are pared to a minimum. The two main ones, called ‘ordinances’ instead of sacraments, are the Lord's Supper and baptism. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1269/1 Focus on..the two Protestant sacraments, or ‘ordinances’ as they are often called in the South, affords insight into the dynamics of regional faith. 2001 Press & Sun-Bull. (Binghamton, N.Y.) (Nexis) 3 Mar. (Living section) 6 d We practice believer's baptism by immersion and observe the ordinance of the Lord's Supper regularly as described in God's Word. †5. An authoritative instruction as to how to proceed or act; an established set of principles; a system of government; authority; discipline. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [noun] ordinance?a1400 governance1402 policy?a1439 regimentc1475 frame1529 statea1538 government1553 estate1559 platform1587 polity1590 governail1598 regimen1663 constitution1735 regime1792 system1806 party government1834 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 101 Of Godes ordinance he forsoke þe schap. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 26 For þis ende shulden clerkes..preie God þat his ordrenance [v.r. ordenaunce] were kepte in his strengþe. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 58 After þe constitucioun and ordinaunce of þe rewmes whare þai dwell. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 11 Cyvyle ordynance ys but as a mean to bryng man to observe thys law of nature. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 7 At the returne from the Captivity things were only restor'd after the ordinance of Moses and David. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 743 She has presum'd t'annul And abrogate..The total ordonance and will of God. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 141 Then the voice Of Ida sounded, issuing ordinance. †6. Material goods; apparatus; contents; furniture. Obsolete.In sense ‘military equipment’ see ordnance n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements ornament?c1225 i-wendea1250 atil1297 tacklea1325 apparel1330 conreyc1330 farec1330 tirec1330 apparementc1340 apparelmentc1374 graithc1375 appurtenancec1386 geara1400 warnementa1400 stuff1406 parelling?a1440 farrements1440 stuffurec1440 skippeson1444 harnessa1450 parela1450 implements1454 reparel1466 ordinance1475 habiliments1483 ornation1483 muniments1485 mountures1489 outred1489 accomplement?c1525 trinketc1525 garnishing1530 garniture1532 accoutrementsc1550 furniments1553 tackling1558 instrument1563 ordinara1578 appointment?1578 outreiking1584 appoint1592 dighting1598 outreik1598 apparate?c1600 accomplishment1605 attirail1611 coutrement1621 apparatusa1628 equipage1648 thing1662 equipment1717 paraphernalia1736 tack1777 outfit1787 fittinga1817 fixing1820 set-out1831 rigging1837 fixture1854 parapherna1876 clobber1890 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking ornament?c1225 i-wendea1250 atil1297 tacklea1325 apparel1330 conreyc1330 farec1330 tirec1330 apparementc1340 apparelmentc1374 graithc1375 appurtenancec1386 geara1400 warnementa1400 stuff1406 parelling?a1440 farrements1440 stuffurec1440 skippeson1444 harnessa1450 parela1450 implements1454 reparel1466 ordinance1475 habiliments1483 ornation1483 muniments1485 outred1489 trinketc1525 garnishing1530 garniture1532 accoutrementsc1550 furniments1553 tackling1558 instrument1563 ordinara1578 appointment?1578 outreiking1584 supellectile1584 appoint1592 dighting1598 outreik1598 materialsa1600 apparate?c1600 attirail1611 coutrement1621 apparatusa1628 outrig1639 equipage1648 thing1662 equipment1717 paraphernalia1736 fixture1767 tack1777 outfit1787 fittinga1817 fixing1820 matériel1821 set-out1831 rigging1837 parapherna1876 clobber1890 1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 133/1 The Tynne, Stuff, and Ordenaunce to the same Myne belongyng. 1512 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 608 Cynctours, moldes, ordynaunces, and euery other thyng concernyng the same vawtyng. 1552 Inventory Church Goods St. Andrew's, Norwich in Norfolk Archæol. (1865) 7 52 Itm the ordynance of the sepulcre prised at v^s. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vi. 38 (margin) [Was the house finished] with all the appurtenances therof, and with all the ordinaunces therof. II. The action of decreeing, ordaining, or prescribing, and related senses. †7. The action or process of making ready, preparing, or providing; preparation; provision; a preparatory step or measure; the result of preparation or provision (of something). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] yarkingc1000 forgraithinga1300 apparellingc1315 ordinancec1330 purveyancec1330 graithinga1340 purveying1340 providencea1382 making readyc1384 preparationa1393 paring1393 provisiona1398 parelc1425 apparelc1430 parelling?a1440 ablingc1450 munition1480 preparing1497 arraya1500 readyinga1500 repurveancea1500 ordaining1509 apparation1533 preparementa1538 apprest1539 preparaturea1540 preparance1543 order1545 apparance1546 prepare1548 fore-preparationa1586 ettlingc1600 apparelment1607 parationa1617 comparation1623 address1633 apparatus1638 prep1920 c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 49 Þei..maden alle here ordenaunce To werren uppon þe king of France. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 677 (MED) Hire ordinance She made so that whan Constance Was come forth with the Romeins..A riche feste sche hem made. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iii. 535 And Troilus, that al this purveiaunce Knew..Hadde hereupon ek mad gret ordinaunce. c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 12 That he may wisely purveye and make contrary ordynaunce ayens hem. c1534 MS Add. 6113 lf. 106 The counterpoynte clothe of golde, the curteyns of whyte sarcenette..were of the quenes owne ordonnance. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 1025 The first ordinance or first draughts..which are doone with a cole. Adumbratio. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 124 But there was..no ordinance, no prouision made for the abolishing of their barbarous Customes and manners. 8. The action of ordering or regulating; regulation; direction; management; authoritative appointment or dispensation; control; disposal. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation ordinancec1384 rule1438 ordera1500 reglement1604 regulation1611 correction1657 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds vii. 53 Ȝoure fadris..token the lawe in ordynaunce of aungels [L. in dispositione angelorum]. c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2915 I putte me hoolly in youre disposicioun and ordinaunce. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 83 His doughter Custance was wedded to Bretayn, With William's ordinance, vnto the erle Alayn. ?a1430 T. Hoccleve Mother of God l. 43 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 53 Thow shapen art by goddes ordenance, Mene for vs. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxij^v Committyng the lyfes..whole to the dukes discrecion and ordinaunce. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 15 Stablit be the infinite diuyne ordinance. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 5 That Ordinance of God, whereby every creature is governed and guided. 1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 6 To resist magistrates in the execution of their offices, is really to resist the will and ordinance of God himself. 1885 J. Ruskin Pleasures Eng. 139 Unless music exalt and purify, it is not under St. Cecilia's ordinance. a1918 W. Owen Fates in Poems (1931) 79 Those I hold my trustiest friends may prove Agents of Theirs to take me if I stray From fatal ordinance. †9. a. The institution, ordination, or foundation of a thing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding fasteningeOE stablishinga1300 groundingc1380 stablingc1380 ordinancec1384 establishingc1400 foundationc1400 fundament1440 stablishment1444 institutionc1460 upsetting1470 erection1508 instituting1534 foundingc1540 erecting1553 constitution1582 establishment1596 plantation1605 instauration1614 institute1641 bottoming1642 ordaining1643 settlement1646 planting1702 incardination1897 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Heb. iv. 3 Sotheli, the werkis maad parfyt fro the ordynaunce of the world [L. ab institutione mundi]. c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 375 (MED) Hee, þe wisdame of god, atte his laste soper, in þe ordynaunce of this heelful sacramente, seyde thus: ‘þis is my body.’ b. The arrangement of plans; devising, contriving, or planning; (also) a device, contrivance, or plan. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2258 And al be it so that youre emprise be establissed and ordeyned by gret multitude of folk, yet thar ye nat accomplice thilke ordinaunce but yow like. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 510 Gan he and I..Right for to speken of an ordinaunce, How we the Grekes myghten disavaunce. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxix. 209 Commune loos sprong in englond thurgh coniectyng and ordynaunce of the frere prechours, that sire Edward of Carnariuan was alyue. ?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 39 (MED) Certayn Lollardes..hadde purposid..to haue slayn the kyng..but the king..was warned of their fals purpos and ordenaunce. †10. Arrangement in lines, ranks, or rows, esp. in order of battle; battle array or a mode of battle array; (also) a display of military force; an army in battle order. Cf. ordnance n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] compassinga1300 compassmentc1300 ordainingc1350 ordinancec1385 imaginationa1393 conjectmentc1400 before-castinga1425 forecastinga1425 imagininga1449 conjectinga1450 machinationc1550 platforming1560 plotting1593 contrivement1599 agitation1600 contrival1602 contrivage1610 projection1611 projectment1611 contrivance1647 politics1650 digestion1680 planning1730 contriving1751 scheme1790 scheming1813 schemery1822 replanning1853 mapping1856 macroplanning1966 the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan redeeOE devicec1290 casta1300 went1303 ordinancec1385 intentc1386 imaginationa1393 drifta1535 draught1535 forecast1535 platform1547 ground-plat?a1560 table1560 convoy1565 design1565 plat1574 ground-plota1586 plot1587 reach1587 theory1593 game1595 projectment1611 projecting1616 navation1628 approach1633 view1634 plan1635 systema1648 sophism1657 manage1667 brouillon1678 speculationa1684 sketch1697 to take measures1698 method1704 scheme1704 lines1760 outline1760 measure1767 restorative1821 ground plan1834 strategy1834 programme1837 ticket1842 project1849 outline plan1850 layout1867 draft1879 dart1882 lurk1916 schema1939 lick1955 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > battle array arraya1375 ordinancec1385 fielda1393 front1487 stight1489 order of battle?1548 battle array1552 battle1577 battle-rayc1600 battalia1613 war1667 line of battle1695 ORBAT1975 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2567 To the lystes rit the compaignye By ordinaunce thurgh out the citee large. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 178 (MED) Alle þe Sarazins conseile in þe schaft was writen & alle þer ordinance. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 38 He assembled all his folke and putte hem in fayr ordenaunce of bataylle. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 101 Soyn thar ordinans brak thai. a1500 (?1452) in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. in 15th Cent. (1913) 298 (MED) And the Duke of Yorke picched his ffeld aboute Dertford whith greet ordinaunce. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 5424 in Wks. (1931) I. 359 I was Pape Iulius manfullye Passe to the feilde.., With ane rycht aufull ordinance. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 455 A whole troupe..of horsmen may ride vpright vnder them in ordinance of battell. †11. Appointment to office; esp. admission to office in the Christian Church; = ordination n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > [noun] > instance of ordinancea1387 point?c1430 preferment1536 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 141 His successour schal come to þe primat of Caunterbury, and he schal take his ordynaunce [L. ordinationem; ?a1475 anon. tr. ordinacion] of hym. 1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 (MED) Nichol..did crye openlich that no man sholde come to chese her Mair but such as were sompned, & tho that were sompned were of his ordynaunce & after his auys. 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 184/1 To make or ordeine ony Officer..of whom the makyng and ordenaunce..longed to you. a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 754 An Emperour..ordeyned hym a wyse man to be stwarde of þe foreste That hyte Ionathan..So it happende sone after þe ordenaunce of þe Emperoure Þat þis Ionathas toke charge of þis foreste. 12. †a. Arrangement in regular sequence or proper relative position; the quality or disposition (in things or matters) of conforming to rule; ordered, arranged, or regulated condition; order, regularity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] ordinancec1390 compositionc1400 order?a1425 rayc1440 ordination1531 dispose1603 divisiona1616 compositure1625 composure1628 method1640 tactics1650 allocation1656 rangement1674 schematism1701 arrangement1715 orderedness1724 groupment1837 the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement ordinancec1390 pointa1393 direction1407 order?a1425 framec1475 orderliness1571 form1600 decorum1610 shape1633 disposurea1637 c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2303 Salomon..seith that wordes that ben spoken discretly, by ordinaunce [v.rr. ordinance, ordenaunce; ordre], beth honycombes, for they yeue swetnesse to the soule. c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 961 The chambres for tarraye in ordynance After my lust. c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 21 Astronomye is dividid in foure parties..In the ordinaunce of the sterres, In disposicioun of þe signes, [etc.]. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 154 She kepte her astate so noble and of so good ordenaunce. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 69 (MED) She [sc. Hope]..toke vpon hir withowt envy or pryde the office for to speke, whych Feyth lefte hir by humilite and by ordynaunce of wourship. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxvii. B This is the ordinaunce of the dorekepers..to mynister in the house of the Lorde. a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Siv That lustie Lord, leuand in gret plesour Did loce that land, and honest ordinance. 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 36 The Ordinance and Design of most of the Royal and great Gardens in and about Paris are of his Invention. b. Methodical arrangement of artistic or literary material in accordance with some plan or rule of composition; (Architecture) systematic collocation of architectural components according to set rules; (also) a characteristic series of such components, an architectural order. See also ordonnance n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > arrangement of parts > specific architecture ordinance?a1425 ordonnancec1660 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > form or order of a work > forming or arranging a work ordinance?a1425 turning1586 collocation1605 ordonnancec1660 casting1865 ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. iv. 183 Of which thyng all the ordenaunce [L. seriem] and the sothe..I have put it in scripture and in remembraunce. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 248 Whech were ageyn þe ordinauns of oure book. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bviij/1 To deuyde the mater by chapytres in the best ordynaunce that I shal conne. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. i. 1 I..haue enterprysed this hystory on y^e forsaid ordynaunce and true fundacion. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 317 Virio the Painters Invention is..admirable, his Ord'nance full, & flowing. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Ordnance, In Architecture, the giving to all the parts of a Building, the just Dimensions and Quantity, which are requisite, according to the Model. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §108. 75 With regard to the columnar ordinances, the Doric was at this period cultivated to a higher degree of grace. 1862 J. Fergusson Hist. Mod. Archit. iii. ii. 185 It is not easy to ascertain how far the ordinance of the present building was influenced by his designs. 1885 Academy 1 Aug. 69/2 Want of ordinance has led Major T. to perpetual repetition. 1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 42 This group of churches..presents closer affinities, in its internal ordinance, with Norman Romanesque than with any other northern school. †13. = company of ordonnance at ordonnance n. 2b. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 11 Charles the seuenth reduced these ordinances [It. militia] to perfection, made the number certaine, appointed their wages. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 11 He likewise deuided these ordinances into men at armes and archers. †14. Rank, order (in the state). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] estatec1230 statec1300 rowa1350 qualityc1425 calling1477 range1494 line1528 stature1533 respect1601 station1603 gradationa1616 ordinancea1616 repute1615 spherea1616 distance1635 impression1639 civils1650 footing1657 regimen1660 order1667 sect1709 caste1791 status1818 position1829 social status1833 standpoint1875 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. ii. 11 Things created To..be still, and wonder, When one but of my ordinance stood vp To speake of Peace, or Warre. View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ordinancev. Brit. /ˈɔːd(ᵻ)nəns/, /ˈɔːdn̩əns/, U.S. /ˈɔrd(ə)nəns/ Forms: late Middle English ordanaunce, late Middle English ordinnce (transmission error), 1900s– ordinance. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ordinance n. Etymology: < ordinance n. rare. transitive. To decree or judge; to regulate; to authorize. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > regulate dightc1230 ordainc1300 raila1350 regulate?a1425 arrayc1440 ordinance1440 order1509 direct?1510 regolate1585 reigle1591 ordinate1595 qualify1597 steer1616 govern1806 police1885 society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > decree putc1390 statute1397 inact1432 ordinance1440 enact1464 act1483 enactizea1618 edict1652 1440 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 24 The saydez john and Robert awardez, ordanauncez, and demez that ye sayd sir William sall sewe a writt de partiscione faciend[a]. 1987 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 52 Houston, he told us, was the only town in the country that was zoned and ordinanced properly. 1996 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 58 143 On the one hand we have the laboratory experiment ordinanced by government regulation, and on the other the observational study. 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