Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other
ordinaries.
Sir W. Scott.
5. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all
comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where
each dish is separately charged; a table d'hôte; hence, also, the meal
furnished at such a dining room. Shak.
All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming
ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.
Swift.
He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to
ordinaries.
Bancroft.
6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which
are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and
saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include
bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and
serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in
ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court. (b) (Naut.) Out
of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel. -- Ordinary of
the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass which is the same every day;
-- called also the canon of the Mass.
Or"di*na*ry*ship (?), n. The state of being an ordinary. [R.] Fuller.
Or"di*nate (?), a. [L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See Ordain.]
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.
Or"di*nate, n. (Geom.) The distance of any point in a curve or a
straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a
line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on
which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.
The ordinate and abscissa, taken together, are called coördinates, and
define the position of the point with reference to the two axes named,
the intersection of which is called the origin of coördinates. See
Coordinate.
Or"di*nate (?), v. t. To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.
Or"di*nate*ly (?), adv. In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer.
Skelton.
Or`di*na"tion (?), n. [L. ordinatio: cf. F. ordination.] 1. 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.
2. (Eccl.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian
ministry; the conferring of holy orders.