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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)






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"Ordinal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Again, Queen Elizabeth was followed by King James, making a clear case of Ex. Again, Anne, the third queen, was preceded by Wm. the Third, or III., and Mary [In.] And these two co-equal Sovereigns were preceded by James the Second, or II. [In., between cardinal number two and the ordinal number Second]. This series of Queens concludes with Victoria the fourth Queen, who was preceded by William the Fourth, or IV. [In.], and William the Fourth, or IV., was preceded by George the Fourth, or ...
— Assimilative Memory - or, How to Attend and Never Forget • Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

... human lower limbs, to which he owes his upright attitude, relieving the manual instruments from all share in station and terrestrial locomotion—combine and concur in raising the group so characterized above and beyond the apes, to, at least, ordinal distinction. The dental characters of mankind bear like testimony. The lowest (Melanian), like the highest (Caucasian), variety of the bimanal order differs from the quadrumanal one in the order of appearance, and succession ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 • Various



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