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Definition of Ordinances
1. ordinance [n] - See also: ordinance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordinances
Literary usage of Ordinances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"... and ordinances of the municipal government of the city of Savannah committed
within the corporate limits of said city and within three miles thereof, ..."
2. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by Eugene Morrow Violette, Henry Morse Stephens (1901)
"The which ordinances our said lord the king, at his parliament at York, in three
weeks from Easter in the fifteenth year of his reign, did, by the prelates, ..."
3. Publications (1848)
"The ordinances and discipline of Christ Jesus, ... very shadow of Christ s
ordinances casts u™™ a shame upon barbarism and incivility—yet withal, I affirm, ..."
4. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684 by Clayton Colman Hall (1910)
"dained as aforesaid, may make and constitute, fit and wholesome ordinances, from
time to time, within the said Province, to be kept and observed, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Among the civil ordinances are regulations affecting the royal magistracy,
commerce, customs-duties, markets, currency, the army, safety of travellers, ..."
6. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by New York (N.Y.), Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1897)
"(The ordinances of the Director General and Council, following here, have already
been published by the State of New York in a volume entitled Laws aud ..."
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