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noun

Ordinal n.

A word or number denoting order or succession.

(Ch. of Eng.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

(R. C. Ch.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass. (Written also ordinale)

adjective

Ordinal adj.

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

Of or pertaining to an order.

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Etymology of 'Ordinal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ordinal" Quotes from Famous Books

... whether Cardinal or Ordinal, to which add, iomadh many, gach every, are placed before their Nouns; as, tri lathan, three days; an treas latha, the third day; iomadh duine, many a man; gach eun g' a nead, every bird to its nest.—Except ...

— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart

... William the Conqueror, was son of Henry, Count of Seez, in Normandy; he was created Earl of Wiltshire soon after the Conquest, before he became an ecclesiastic; Camden speaks of him as the "Earl of Dorset." As the author of the "Consuetudinariam," the ordinal of offices for the use of Sarum, wherein he collated the various forms of ritual in use at many churches, both in England and on the Continent, he won a fame far more than the building of Old Sarum, were it never so stately a cathedral, could have secured him. His famous "Sarum ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury - A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum • Gleeson White