Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Regularly; according to an established order; in order.
- In mathematics, as or so as to form an ordinate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an ordinate manner; orderly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
ordinate manner;regular ;orderly .
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Examples
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And when they be thus apparelled, they go two and two together, full ordinately, before the emperor, without speech of any word, save only inclining to him.
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And they live full ordinately, and so soberly in meat and drink, that they live right long.
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(Irenaeus, cxix.), "in the Valentinian acceptation of the word, to mean an emanation from the divine substance, subsisting co-ordinately and co-eternally with the Deity, the Pleroma still remaining one."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Hope trusts ordinately, and presumption inordinately.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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On the other hand, if one be ordinately intent on the knowledge of sensible things by reason of the necessity of sustaining nature, or for the sake of the study of intelligible truth, this studiousness about the knowledge of sensible things is virtuous.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Thus these foolish people departed, some one way and some another; and the king and his lords and all his company right ordinately entered into London with great joy.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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The earl of Alençon came to the battle right ordinately and fought with the Englishmen, and the earl of Flanders also on his part.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Husbandry which Mayster Groshede somtyme Bysshop of Lyncoln made, and translated it out of Frensshe into Englyshe, whiche techeth all maner of men to governe theyr londes, tenementes, and demesnes ordinately. '
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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These were strenuous occupations for a boy of nine and a girl of thirteen, but, though we were not in - ordinately good children, we never complained; we found them very satisfactory substitutes for more normal bucolic joys.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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If it is a matter of provincial legislation let us get solid public opinion to force the province to act co-ordinately and unitedly.
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