单词 | ordinal |
释义 | ordinaln.1 1. Christian Church. a. In the pre-Reformation English Church: a book detailing the order of Church services at different times of the Ecclesiastical Year; a service book. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > Roman Catholic ordinala1325 consuetudinarya1513 ordinarya1513 directory1759 ordo1849 a1325 Rogationtide (Corpus Cambr.) 16 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 161 (MED) Þe Letanie..was..iuonde and in þe ordinal ydo. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 295 (MED) He made þe ordynal of þe service of holy chirche, and cleped it þe Consuetudinarius. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 203 As y haue red in dyuerse oolde ordinalis of cathedrale chirchis. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 129 (MED) The Ordinalle to prestis settith owte The seruyce of the dayes as þei go abowte. 1549 Act 3 & 4 Edward VI c. 10 §1 All Books called..Couchers, Journals, Ordinals..shall be..abolished. a1746 J. Lewis in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 169 An Ordinal; in which was ordained the manner of saying and solemnizing divine offices. 1846 W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae I. p. xliii Other Churches equally with that of Sarum would have had their Ordinals. 1951 Speculum 26 415 Psalters, breviaries, ordinals, collectars, customaries, Offices..ranging in date from the tenth century to the fifteenth. b. A book prescribing the rules to be observed, and containing the form of service to be used, in the ordination of deacons and priests, and the consecration of bishops. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > for ordination of cleric ordinal1395 12 Concl. Lollards (Trin. Hall Cambr.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) 22 296 (MED) Þe presthod of Rome is mad with signis, rytis, and bisschopis blissingis, and þat is of litil uertu..for þe bisschopis ordinalis [L. ordinalia siue rubrice] in þe newe testament ben litil of record. 1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified iv. 112 Their exceptions..were..either against our English Ordinall, or against the Legality of our Bishops. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. ii. 76 The new Common Prayer Book was brought into the House, with an Ordinal or Form of ordaining Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 1849 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 617 The Episcopalian defends those symbols of his sect, the Prayer book and the Ordinal. 1876 Prayer-book Interleaved 339 This prayer is in the Roman Ordinal preceded by an exposition of the duties of a priest. 1996 Church Times 13 Sept. 12/2 The English Ordinal was declared to be defective, lacking..the Tradition of the Instruments: the handing to newly ordained priests of paten, bread and chalice as symbols of their office as sacrificing priests. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > book of ordinala1393 rule book1586 book of rules1639 book1848 book of words1929 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 969 To every Monthe..He hath after his Ordinal Assigned on in special. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 127 (MED) He may..pursue the ordire of this boke, Namyd of Alchymye the ordinalle. 1532 (a1475) J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Digby 145) in J. Fortescue-Aland Difference between Absolute & Limited Monarchy (1714) xv. 119 A Boke..kept..as a Registre or an Ordynal, how they schal do, and be orderyd. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Ordinal, is..sometimes used for a Book, containing the Orders and Constitutions of a Religious House or Colledge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ordinaladj.n.2 A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] habitudinalc1380 ordinala1425 usantc1450 habituate1526 habited1605 habitual1611 solemn1616 habituary1627 hectic1641 practised1656 regular1786 familiar1920 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 180 (MED) Þis suynge [sc. of Christ] stondiþ most in ordynal love of man. c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 8 (MED) O mekenesse of vertu princepal..In this persone of kunnynge ordynal Is ful assembled. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) ii. vi. 115/1 To kepe obedyence and ordynall subgeccion of the subgettes to theyr soueraynes. 2. Marking position in an order or series; applied to those numbers which refer something to a certain place in a series (e.g. first, second, third, etc.), as distinguished from cardinal numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.). Also: of, relating to, or indicated by such a number. Cf. cardinal adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > ordinal ordinal1599 finitesimal1861 1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 12 (margin) Ordinall Numerals. 1607 L. Andrewes Serm. II. 212 ‘Primus’ is an ordinal number. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iv. 109 Number..whether Collective, as three, six, nine; or Ordinal, as the second, third, or fourth. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 277 Third is an Adjective, and is call'd an Ordinal Number, as Three is a Cardinal Number. 1839 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 129 169 The person upon the top of the stage, having ascertained that the ship was steadily moored, directed that the ship's bell should be struck, as a signal to all the observers, and then gave out the ordinal number of the observation. 1868 Proc. Royal Soc. 17 163 For the solar inequalities, they were treated by collecting the measures for every complete solar day, or for every solar hour bearing the same ordinal number, according as the annual or diurnal inequalities were the subject of inquiry. 1892 H. Sweet Short Hist. Eng. Gram. 126 Most of the ordinal numerals are derivatives of the cardinal ones. 1907 E. W. Hobson Theory of Functions of Real Variable 177 Corresponding to a single transfinite cardinal number there is an infinity of transfinite ordinal numbers. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1555/1 The relationship between ordinal position of birth and mental illness, and particularly schizophrenia, is a familiar issue. 1998 Michigan Law Rev. (Nexis) 96 1474 Intentional murder deserves the highest punishment the law can inflict, with armed robbery and burglary following in an ordinal sequence. 3. Chiefly Biology. Of or relating to an order in a classification system (usually of animals or plants). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [adjective] > order or sub-order ordinal1822 subordinal1903 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 226 The ordinal name made choice of is Phlogotica. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 182 The dehiscence of their capsule; a character which is not now esteemed as of ordinal importance. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 294 Specific, or generic, or ordinal lines of distinction. 1904 Amer. Naturalist 38 101 (note) This is defined as an order by Broom and may prove to be of full ordinal rank. 1988 Auk 105 409/2 Groups at and above the ordinal level were clustered from several overlapping matrices. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > [adjective] > major ordinal1842 1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) I. 240 Such an arrangement evidently supposes the ordinal identity of Bishops and Presbyters. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of (a) row(s) ordinal1892 1892 Classical Rev. 460/1 All the pieces move both in an ordinal or straight line..or in a diagonal line. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 139 Hand in hand in ordinal dances. B. n.2 An ordinal number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > ordinal ordinal1512 1512 T. Linacre Progymnasmata Gram. Vulgaria sig. b.viv A nowne numerall is that yt signyfyeth numbre,..as, primus, secundus, tertius and such be callyd ordinallys. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. B3v The ordinals are, which declare the order of place or time. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 42 The Denominators are best pronounced by the Ordinals, as halves, thirds..etc. 1736 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 124 Complex Characters of several Letters..which..are designed to express Cardinals, Ordinals, or Adverbs of Number. 1862 R. G. Latham Elements Compar. Philol. ii. iv. 742 The cardinals as compared with the ordinals are certainly abstract, and, as such, ought, at the first view, to be the newer terms. 1898 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 27 300 [In Carib] the ordinals are formed by prefixing l or t..to the cardinals, and suffixing the particle áni. 1921 Man 21 37 Properly cardinal numbers should be used instead of ordinals, so as to read (katun) 13 Ahau instead of the 13th Ahau. 1993 C. Ferris Meaning of Syntax (BNC) 123 What superlatives, comparatives and ordinals do is to pick some entity out of its extraction set by giving a property which identifies it relative to membership in that set... In a queue of art-lovers there will be only one who is first. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1325adj.n.2a1425 |
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