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Ordinal   Listen
noun
Ordinal  n.  
1.
A word or number denoting order or succession.
2.
(Ch. of Eng.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.
3.
(R. C. Ch.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass. (Written also ordinale)



adjective
Ordinal  adj.  
1.
Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc. Contrasted to cardinal.
2.
Of or pertaining to an order.






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"Ordinal" Quotes from Famous Books



... eventuation, (its chain of events.) It shows that statism, or world-existence-at-rest, in space, is analogous with the cardinal series of numeration; and motism or world-existence-in-motion, in time, analogous with the ordinal series of numbers; and that, finally, statism and cardinism, (as of the four cardinal points in the orientation of space,) are analogous with spiritualities and the spirit world; and that motism and ordinism (succession by steps) are analogous with temporalities, (transitory things) ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 • Various



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