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Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.

The state or quality of being orderly.

ORDERLY a. 7 definitions

Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton.

ORDINABILITY n.

Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.

Capable of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.]

ORDINAL a. 5 definitions

Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.

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

ORDINANCE n. 5 definitions

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

One about to be ordained.

ORDINANT a. 2 definitions

Ordaining; decreeing. [Obs.] Shak.

ORDINARILY adv.

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.

ORDINARY a. 9 definitions

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

ORDINARYSHIP n.

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

ORDINATE a. 3 definitions

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.

ORDINATELY adv.

In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer. Skelton.

ORDINATION n. 3 definitions

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.

Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, 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 off…

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