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What is an ordinance?

What is an ordinance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A local law, an edict or decree.
    1. (England) Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament.
    2. (Commonwealth of Nations) Detailed legislation that translates the broad principles of the university's charter and statutes into practical effect.
  2. A religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church.
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If simultaneous releases have to be stopped then the government will have to pass an ordinance, he added.
The Cabinet approved an ordinance regulating the inspections connected to direct control of the protection of classified information.
If we drop some of the ordinance from our bomb bays, we can squeeze you people into our planes' cargo bays.
Peddlers and their advocates also drafted a so-called peddler's ordinance to exempt their cries from regulation under the anti-noise ordinance.
In the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, a beautiful antitype of the table of shewbread is seen.
In Connecticut, a 1949 ordinance forbids the storing of town records in any place where liquor is sold.

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