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† ˈordinately, adv. Obs.
[f. ordinate a. + -ly2.]
1. In an ordinate, ordered, or regulated manner; in due order, in regular succession or sequence; according to order or rule, regularly; properly, duly, temperately.
1382Wyclif 1 Macc. vi. 40 Thei wenten warly, and ordynatly. c1425Lydg. Assembly of Gods 203 Pluto..gan to declare euen by and by Bothe her compleyntes ordynatly. 1549Latimer 1st Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 27, I wyll make a durable lawe, whyche shal compell the to walke ordinatlye, and in a plain way. 1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xxiii. 548 God worketh ordinately, not preposterously. 1651Raleigh's Ghost 100 It is impossible, that a thing should particularly and ordinately in its own operation aim at one certain end, except it..knoweth the end.
2. Math.
a. With equality of sides and angles.
b. So as to form an ordinate; as an ordinate. Cf. ordinate A. 4, 5, B.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. v. §5 (1712) 54 If it be but exactly round..or ordinately Quinquangular. 1655–87― App. Antid. (1712) 192 To be ordinately figured, is an undoubted Perfection of a Body. 1763Pemberton in Phil. Trans. LIII. 525 If DK be not ordinately applied to LM, let DO be ordinately applied to LM. |