718 
O R D 
Make it orderly and well, 
According to the faftiion of the time. Shakefpeare. 
OR'DIK, a town of European Turkey, in Beffarabia : 
eight miles north of Ifmael. 
ORDINABIL'ITY, f. [from ordinable .] Capability of 
being appointed.—Our obedience to God ought to be 
fuch, as that it may have, though not a merit of con- 
dignity to deferve everlafting blifs, (that being, as I have 
fliewn you, utterly impoflible,) yet an ordinability, as a 
great doctor of our church exprefleth it, that is, a meet- 
nefs, fitnefs, and due difpofition toward the obtaining it. 
Bp. Bull. 
OR'DINABLE, cidj. [ordino, Lat.] Such as may be ap¬ 
pointed.—All the ways of economy God hath ufed to¬ 
ward a rational creature, to reduce mankind to that courfe 
of living which is raoft perfectly agreeable to our nature, 
and, by the mercy of God, ordinable to eternal blifs. 
Hammond. —If we look upon ourfelves as men, we are 
free agents, and therefore capable of doing good or evil, 
and confequently ordinable unto reward or punifhm ent. 
Pearfon on ihe Creed. 
OR'DINAL, adj. [Fr. from ordinalis, Lat.] Noting 
order : as fecond, third.—The moon’s age is thus found : 
Add to the epaft: the day of the month and the ordinal 
number of that month from March incluiive, becaufethe 
epaft begins at'March 5 and the fum of thofe, crafting 
away thirty or twenty-nine, as often as it arifcth, is the 
age of the moon. Holder. 
OR'DINAL, /! A ritual; a book containing the or¬ 
der or manner of performing divine fervice.—The ft rift 
enquiries and - admonitions of the church, of which her 
ordinals moft particularly give an account. Puller's 31 od. 
of the Ch. of Eng. 
As provoft principall 
To teach them their ordina.il. Shelton. 
OR'DINANCE, f. [ordonnan.ee , Fr.] Law; rule; pre- 
fcript.—It feemeth hard to plant any found ordinance , or 
reduce them to a civil government; fmceall their ill cuf- 
toms are permitted unto them. Spenfer on Ireland. 
Let Richard and Elizabeth, 
The true fucceeders of each royal houfe, 
By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together. Shakefpeare 
Obfervance commanded.—One ordinance ought not to ex¬ 
clude the other, much lefs to difparage the other; and, 
leaft of all, to undervalue that which is the moft eminent. 
Bp. Taylor. —Appointment: 
Things created to fhew bare heads, 
When one but of my ordinance flood up, 
To fpeak of peace or war. Shakefpeare's Coriol. 
A cannon.—It is now generally written, for diftinftion, 
ordnance, which fee. Its derivation is not certain ; per¬ 
haps, when the word cannon was firft introduced, it was mif- 
taken for canon , and fo not improperly tranflated ordinance. 
It is commonly ufed in a colleftive lenfe for morecannons 
than one. Johvfon. 
Caves and womby vaultages of France, 
Shall chide your trefpafs, and return your mock, 
In fecond accent to his ordinance. Shakefpeare's Hen. V. 
Ordinance of Parliament, faid to be the fame with 
aft of parliament ; for afts of parliament are often called 
ordinances, and ordinances afts; but, originally there 
feems to be this difference between them: that an ordi¬ 
nance was but a temporary aft, not introducing any new 
law, but founded on afts formerly made; and fuch ordi¬ 
nances might be altered by fublequent ordinances : but 
an aft of parliament is a perpetual law, not to be altered 
but by king, lords, and commons. Hot. Pari. 37 Ed. III. 
Pry line on 4 In(l. 13. 
OR'DINANT, adj. [ordinans, Lat.] Ordaining; de¬ 
creeing. Not in life. —Even in that, was heaven ordinant. 
Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
OR'DINARILY, adv. [from ordinary.’] According to 
O R D 
eftablilhed rules ; according to fettled method.—We are 
not to look that the church Ihould change her public 
laws and ordinances, made according to that which is 
judged ordinarily and commonly fitted for the whole, 
although it chance that for fome particular men the fame 
be found inconvenient. Hooker. —-Springs and rivers do not 
derive the water, which they ordinarily refund, from rain. 
Woodward's Nat. Hift. —Commonly ; ufually.—The in- 
ftances of human ignorance were not only clear ones, but 
fuch as are not fo ordinarily fufpedted. Glanville .— 
Prayer ought to be more than ordinarily fervent and vi¬ 
gorous before the facrament. South. 
OR'DINARY, adj. [ordinarius, Lat.] Eftablilhed; me¬ 
thodical ; regular.—-Though in arbitrary governments 
there may be a body of laws obferved in the ordinary 
forms of juftice, they are not fulficient to feeure any rights 
to the people ; becaufe they may be difpenfed with. Ad- 
dijon's Freeholder. —Common ; ufual.-—Yet did ihe only 
utter her doubt to her daughters, thinking, fince the 
word was pail, ihe would attend a further occafion, left 
over much halte might feem to proceed of the ordinary 
mi (like between fifters-in-law. Sidney. —There is nothing 
more ordinary than children’s receiving into their minds 
propofitions from their parents; which, being faftened by 
degrees, are at laft, whether true or falfe, riveted there. 
Locke. —Method is not lefs requifite in ordinary conver- 
fation than in writing. Addifon. —Mean; of low rank.—- 
Thefe are the paths wherein ye have walked, that are of 
the ordinary fort of men ; thefe are the very fteps ye have 
trodden, and the manifed degrees whereby ye are of your 
guides and direftors trained up in that fchool. Hooker.— 
You will wonder how fuch an ordinary fellow as Wood, 
could get his majefty’s broad feal. Swift. —Ugly ; not 
handfome: as,-She is an ordinary woman.—Inexperienced 
or unfkilful; as, an ordinary feaman, diftinguifhed from 
an able feaman. 
OR'DINARY, f. [from the adj.] A civil-law term for 
any judge who hath authority to take cognizance of caufes 
in his own right, and not by deputation. By the common 
law it is taken for him who hath ordinary , or exempt and 
immediate, jurifdiftion in caufes ecclefiaftical. Co. Lit. 
344. Stal. Weft. i. 13 Ed. I. c. 19.—If fault be in thefe 
things any-where jultly found, law hath referred the 
whole difpofition and redrefs thereof to the ordinary of the 
place. Hooker. —It is fit and orthodox that men fhould 
periih for following their confciences, and for under- 
ftanding theferipture without leave of the ordinary. Inde¬ 
pendent Whig, 1720. 
The evil will 
Of all their parilhioners they had conftrain’d, 
Who to the ordinary of them complain’d, Spenfer. 
This name is applied to a bifliop who hath original jurif¬ 
diftion ; and an arclibifhop is the ordinary of the whole 
province, to vifit and receive appeals from inferior jurif¬ 
diftion, &c. a lift. 398. 9 Rep. 41. Wood's Injl. 25. The 
word ordinary is alfo ufed for every commiffary or offi¬ 
cial of the bilhop, or other ecclefiaftical judge having 
judicial power ; an archdeacon is an ordinary; and ordi¬ 
naries may grant adminiftration of inteftates’ eftates, See. 
31 Ed. III. c. 11. 9 Rep. 36. But the bifliop of the diocefe 
is the true and only ordinary to certify excommunications, 
lawfulnefs of marriage, and other ecclefiaftical afts, to the 
judges of the common law. 
The ordinary’s power is declared by many ftatutes ; as 
relating to vifiting hofpitals, by flat. 2 Hen. V. c. 1. Certi¬ 
fying of baftardy, &c. 9 Hen. VI. c. 11. Concerning 
queltions of tithes in debate before him ; 27 Hen. VIII. 
c. 20. Allowance of fchoolmafters, &c. 23 Eliz. c. 1. 
1 Jac. I. c. 4. 13 Car. II. c. 12, See; The ordinary’s power 
and intereft in a church is of admitting, inftituting, and 
indufting, parfons; of feeing and taking care that it be 
provided with a pallor by the patron who has the right 
of prefenting; or, in his default, to bellow the church on 
fome proper perfon to ferve the cure. See. When the or¬ 
dinaries or their minifters have committed extortion of 
z opprelfion. 
