capitalized[Middle English, from Medieval Latin ordinale, from Late Latin, neuter of ordinalis]: a book of rites for the ordination of deacons, priests, and bishops
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[Late Latin ordinalis, from ordinalis, adjective]: ordinal number
If there were several sisters, ordinals could be used, Claudia Tertia, Claudia Quarta, etc.National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
Adjective
With just three primary colors (plus black and white) and two ordinal directions, Piet Mondrian took painting to new levels of abstraction. The Art Newspaper, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022 From the insight derivation or analytics perspective, the structure provides the right data type (i.e., nominal, ordinal or numeric). Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021 The sections are constructed of scraps and vignettes, fragmentary pieces of memory that hop around the time line, following their own ordinal logic. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019 The second is ordinal-linguistic personification, or OLP, in which different parts of a sequence — days of the week, but also things like letters of the alphabet and months of the year — are each imbued with their own unique personalities. Cari Romm, The Cut, 10 May 2018