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Or"di*nance (?), n. [OE.
ordenance, OF. ordenance, F. ordonnance. See
Ordain, and cf. Ordnance, Ordonnance.]

1. Orderly arrangement; preparation;
provision. [Obs.] Spenser.

They had made their ordinance

Of victual, and of other purveyance.

2. 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.

Thou wilt die by God's just
ordinance.

By custom and the ordinance of
times.

Walking in all the commandments and ordinances
of the Lord blameless.

&fist; Acts of Parliament are sometimes called ordinances;
also, certain colonial laws and certain acts of Congress under
Confederation; as, the ordinance of 1787 for the government of
the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River; the
colonial ordinance of 1641, or 1647.


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