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noun

Ordinal n.

A word or number denoting order or succession.

(Ch. of Eng.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

(R. C. Ch.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass. (Written also ordinale)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... relative complication of its organization as compared with other allied animals,—nothing of the general mode of execution,—nothing of the plan expressed in that mode of execution. Yet, with the exception of the ordinal characters, which, since they imply relative superiority and inferiority, require, of course, a number of specimens for comparison, his one animal would tell him all this as well ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various

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