Ordinal: Definition and part of speech

Ordinal

  1. n. A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.
  2. a. Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.
  3. a. Of or pertaining to an order.
  4. n. A word or number denoting order or succession.
  5. n. The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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