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The state or quality of being ordinal. [R.] Latham.

Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.] Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer.

One about to be ordained.

Ordaining; decreeing. [Obs.] Shak.

According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe. Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration. I. Taylor.

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison.

The state of being an ordinary. [R.] Fuller.

Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.

In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer. Skelton.

nting, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc. The holy and wise ordination of God. Jer. Taylor. Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.

Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.

One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.

Waving. [Obs.] Ounding, paling, winding, or bending . . . of cloth. Chaucer.

A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.

That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations. Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected. A. Hamilton.

The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

One of a series of bases containing the amido and the isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.

A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the vinegar of roses. Floyer.

The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. Sir W. Scott.