ordinance

名词 n.
/ˈɔːdɪnəns/|/ˈɔːdnəns/    /ˈoɹdɪnəns/|/ˈoɹdnəns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A local law, passed by e.g. a city. US
    — Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison.
  2. An edict or decree, authoritative order.; Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament. England
  3. An edict or decree, authoritative order.; Detailed legislation that translates the broad principles of the university's charter and statutes into practical effect. Commonwealth,UK
  4. An edict or decree, authoritative order.; A law enacted by the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Hong-Kong
  5. An edict or decree, authoritative order.; A temporary legislation promulgated by the president on the recommendation of the cabinet. India,Pakistan
  6. A religious practice or ritual prescribed by a church.
  7. Alternative form of ordnance (“military equipment, especially artillery”). alt-of,alternative,proscribed
    — Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, / The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,

词形变化

ordinances plural ordinaunce alternative,obsolete

词源

From Middle English ordinaunce (ca. 1300), from Old French ordenance (“decree, command”) (modern French ordonnance), from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from ordinans, the present participle of ordino (“put in order”) (whence ordain). Doublet of ordonnance.
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