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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.

The act of ordaining, appointing, 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.

mes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.…

of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden.

Ordovician.

The Ordovician formation.

Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.

Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy. Drayton.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

rrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.