n. [ F. See Ordinance. ] (Fine Arts) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F., p. pr. of ordonner. See Ordinant. ] Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. & n. (Geol.) Ordovician. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From L.