ordinaire (ordinar)

[F.: an abbreviation for vin ordinaire, ordinary (table) wine: see ordinary.] Wine, usually of a low grade, such as is customarily served at an ordinary. See ordinary, n., 6. ordinal (or'di-nal), a. and n. [ ordinale, Surrey, Æneid, ii. ject as occupying a certain place in a series of similar objects; first, second, third, etc., are ordinal numbers.-2. In nat. hist., pertaining to, characteristic of, or designating an order, as of animals, or a family of plants: as, ordinal terms; a group of ordinal value; ordinal distinctions; ordinal rank. Milton , P. L., vi. 74. Her thick brown hair was smoothly taken off her broad forehead, and put in a very orderly fashion under her linen Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, iii. сар. This orderly succe ion of tints, gently blending into one another, is one of the greatest sources of beauty that we are acquainted with. O. N. Rood, Modern Chromatics, p. 278. 2t. In accordance with established regulations; duly authorized. As for the orders established, sith the law of nature, of God, and man do all favour that which is in being till or derly judgement of decision be given against it, it is but justice to exact obedience of you. Hooker , Eccles. Polity. 3. Observant of rule or discipline; not unruly; without uproar; deliberate; peaceful or proper in behavior. He would not swear;... and gave such orderly and well-behaved reproof to all uncomeline that I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 59. And now what cure, what other remedy, Can to our desp'rate wounds be ministred? Men are not good but for nece ity; Nor orderly are ever born, but bred. Perkin, Daniel , Civil Wars, vii. 38. considering the delay of time, and obseruing their orderly and not tumultuary arming, doubted the worst. Bacon , Hist. Hen. VII., p. 141. 4. Milit., of or pertaining to orders, or to the communication or execution of orders; on duty: as, orderly drummer; orderly room. - Orderly book ( mil it.), a book kept in each troop or company in a regiment for the insertion of general or regimental orders. - Orderly officer, the officer of the day that is, the officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to superintend matters of cleanline , food, etc.; especially, the officer of the day on duty at the headquarters of an army in the field. Orderly room, a room in barracks used as the office of a company. Wilhelm. - Orderly sergeant, in the United States army and marine corps, the senior sergeant of every company or guard of marines. =Syn. 1. Orderly implies more love of order than either methodical or systematic. 3. Peaceable, quiet, well-behaved. II. n.; pl. orderlies (-liz). 1. A private soldier or a non-commi ioned officer who attends on a superior officer to carry orders or me ages. -2. An attendant in a ward of a hospital whose duty it is to keep order among the patients, see to their wants, preserve cleanline , etc. - 3. One who keeps things in order generally and preserves neatne . See the quotation. [Eng.] But sweeping and removing dirt is not the only occupation of the street- orderly ... He is also the watchman of house-property and shop-goods; the guardian of reticules, pocket-books, purses, and watch-pockets; the experienced observer and detector of pick-pockets; the ever ready, though unpaid, auxiliary to the police constable. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 260. orderly (or'der-li), adv . [= D. ordelijk = OHG. ordenlicho, MHG. ordenliche, G. or dent lich Dan.ordentlig ; from the adj.] According to due order; regularly; duly; properly; decorously. They went all in couples very orderly . = Coryat, Crudities, I. 104. Thou thyself also walkest orderly , and keepest the law. Acts xxi. 24. You are too blunt; go to it orderly. Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 45. Hee apprehends a iest by seeing men smile, and laughes orderly himselfe when it comes to his turne. Bp. Earle , Micro-cosmographie, A Meere Form all Man. ordinabilityt (ord i-na-bil'i-ti), n. [ ordinabilita (t-)s, ordination, ordinabilis , ord i IMG:content-1813.png:[blocks in formation] As prouost pryncypall To teach them theyr ordynall. Skelton, Poems, Phyllyp Sparowe, 1. 555. (c) In England before the Reformation, a book directing in what manner the services for the canonical hours should be said throughout the year; a directory of the daily office: also known as the ordinale, pica, or pie. It contained a calendar, and gave the variations in the choir offices according to the day or season. The Ordinal was a directory, or perpetual calendar, so drawn up that it told how each day's service, the year through, might easily be found. Rock , Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 213. (d) In the Anglican Ch. since the Reformation, a book containing the forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons; a collection of officers prescribing the form and manner of conferring holy orders. The ordinal was first published in English in 1550, and was slightly changed in 1552 and 1662. Although technically a separate book, it has always since 1552 been bound with the Prayer-book. ordinale (or-di-nā'lē), n.; pl. ordinal i a (-li-ä). [ML., neut. of ordinal is : see ordinal .] Same as ordinal , 2 ( c ). ordinal ism (or'di-nal-izm), n . [ ordinal + -ism.] The quality of being ordinal. Latham. ordinance (or'di-nans), n. [ ord in a unce , or den a unce, ordenanza = Pg. orde- nança = It. ordinanza , ordinant i a , an or- der, decree, ordinan ( t- ) s , ordering, ordain- ing: see ordinant. Cf. ordnance, ordonnance.] 11. Ordering; disposition; arrangement. And marching thrise in warlike ordinance , Thrise lowted lowly to the noble mayd. Spenser, F. Q., IV. iii. 5. IMG:content-1814.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1815.png:[blocks in formation] 6t. Established state or condition; regular or 4146 ordinant (or'di-nant), a. and n. [F. ordinant = Sp. Pg. ordenante = It. ordinante, Why, even in that was Heaven ordinant. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 48. II. n. One who ordains; a prelate who confers orders. ordinarily (ord i-nā-ri-li), adv. In an ordinary manner. (a) According to established rules or settled method; in accordance with an established order. The Author of Nature hath so ordained that the temper of the inferior bodies should ordinarily depend vpon the superior. Hake will , Apology, v. § 1. (b) Commonly; usually; in most cases. Corn (Indian) was sold ordinarily at three shillings the bushel, a good cow at seven or eight pounds, and some at £5-and other thing answerable. Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Job xxxviii. 33. All these things change from their ordinance Their natures and preformed faculties To monstrous quality. Shak ., J. C., 1. 3. 66. 7. Regulation by authority; a command; an appointment; an order; that which is ordained, ordered, or appointed; a rule or law established by authority; edict; decree, as of the Supreme Being or of Fate; law or statute made by human authority; authoritative regulation. In modern usage the term covers all the standing regulations adopted by a municipal corporation; or, in other words, the local laws and internal regulations pa ed by the governing body, and calculated to have permanent or continuous operation, as distinguished from resolutions, which are orders of temporary character or intended to meet a special occasion. Thus, an order forbidding fireworks in the streets is an ordinance; one appropriating money for celebrating a holiday is a resolution. Abbreviated ord. His doughter Custance was wedded to Bretayn, With William's ordinance , vnto the erle Alayn. Rob. of Brunne , p. 83. He made also divers Ordinances concerning the measures of Corn, and Wine, and Cloath; and that no Cloath Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 25. ordinary (or'di-nā-ri), a. and n. [= F. ordinaire Sp. Pg. İt. ordinario, Euen then (my priests) may you make holyday, And pray no more but ordinairie prayers. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 81. Moreover, the porters were at every gate; it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them. 1 Esd. i. 16. Lady, may it please you to bestow upon a stranger the ordinary grace of salutation? Beau . and Fl., Scornful Lady, i. 1. 2. Common in practice or use; usual; frequent; habitual. Be patient, princes; you do know, these fits Are with his highne very ordinary . Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. 115. Their ordinary drink being water, yet once a day they will warm their blouds with a draught of wine. Sandys , Travailes, p. 14. To be excited is not the ordinary state of the mind, but the extraordinary, the now and then state. J. H. Newman , Parochial Sermons, i. 263. but only in principal Towns and Cities. Baker , Chronicles, p. 66. God's ordinance Of Death is blown in every wind. Tennyson, To J. S. 8. Eccles., a religious ceremony, rite, or practice established by authority: as, the ordinance of baptism. He reproved also the practice of private members making speeches in the church a emblies, to the disturbance and hindrance of the ordinances. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 376. 9. In arch ., arrangement; system; order: said of a part or detail as well as of an architectural whole. The soffits or ceilings are of the same material as the walls and columnar ordinances . Encyc. Brit., II. 389. Northwest ordinance. Same as ordinance of 1787.Ordinance of Nullification. See nullification . - Ordinance of parliament, a temporary act of parliament.Ordinance of 1784, an act of the United States Congre under the Confederation, pa ed April 23d, 1784, for the temporary government of the Northwest Territory, comprising tracts ceded to the United States by the several States. Ordinance of 1787, the law of Congre under the Confederation according to which was organized the Northwest Territory, west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mi i ippi, and north of the Ohio rivers. Its chief provisions related to the government of the territory, the rights of citizens, the formation of new States, free navigation, and especially the prohibition of slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crimes.Ordinance of staples. See staple . - Ordinance of the forest, an English statute (33 and 34 Edward I.) touching matters and causes of the forest. - Ordinance of the Salad in Tithe, an English ordinance of 1188 levying a tax of that name. It is important as being one of the earliest attempts to tax personal property, and because local jurors were employed to determine the liability of individuals. Self-denying Ordinance, in Eng . hist., an ordinance, pa ed April 3d, 1645, that members of either house of Parliament holding military or civil office should vacate such positions at the expiration of forty days. = Syn. 7. Edict , Decree , etc. See law1 .