ordonnance
See also: ordonnancé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ordonnance. Related to ordinance, ordnance.
Noun
ordonnance
- (art) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
- August 15, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
- their dramatic ordonnance of the parts
- August 15, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃s/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: ordonnances
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Noun
ordonnance f (plural ordonnances)
- (medicine) prescription
- (law) order, decree
- (law) ordinance
Derived terms
- ordonnance restrictive
Related terms
- ordonnancement
- ordonnancer
Further reading
- “ordonnance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.