ordonnance

See also: ordonnancé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ordonnance. See ordinance.

Noun

ordonnance

1. (art) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
   • Coleridge

     their dramatic ordonnance of the parts

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ordonnance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃s/

• Audio (France, Paris):

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• Homophone: ordonnances
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

ordonnance f (plural ordonnances)

1. (medicine) prescription
2. (law) order, decree
3. (law) ordinance

Related terms

• ordonnancement
• ordonnancer

Further reading

• “ordonnance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.