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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F. See

(Fine Arts)

The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.

Their dramatic

ordonnance

of the parts.

Coleridge.

Noun.

In painting, the disposition of the parts of a picture, either in regard to the whole piece or to the several parts.

See also: ordonnance

ordonnancé m ‎(feminine singular ordonnancée, masculine plural ordonnancés, feminine plural ordonnancées)