ordonnance

Borrowed from French ordonnance. Doublet of ordinance and ordnance.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹdənəns/, or like French /oɹdɔˈnɑns/

ordonnance

1. (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

• “ordonnance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ordonnance”, in Collins English Dictionary.

From ordonner +‎ -ance.

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃s/

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• Homophone: ordonnances
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

ordonnance f (plural ordonnances)

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

   ordonnance restrictive ― restraining order

3. (law) ordinance

• ordonnancer
  • ordonnancement

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