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oppreffion, they may be indifted, putting the things in 
■certain, and in what manner, Sec. a5 Rd. III. c. 9. 
No ornaments can be fet up in a church, without con- 
fen t of the ordinary. 
The Romifh canonifts call the pope ordinary of ordina¬ 
ries, fince, by the Lateral! council, he has the right of col¬ 
lating, by prevention, to all benefices ; in excluiion of 
the ordinary collators. 
Ordinary of Assize and Sessions, was a deputy of 
the bifliop of the diocefe, anciently appointed to give 
malefaftors their neck-verfes, and judge whether they 
read or not; alfo to perform divine fervice for them, and 
a Hi ft in preparing them for death. So 
Ordinary of Newgate, is one who is attendant in 
ordinary upon the condemned malefactors in that prifon, 
to prepare them for death ; and he records the behaviour 
of fuch perfons. Formerly, it was the cuftom of the ordi¬ 
nary to publifh a final 1 pamphlet upon the execution of 
any remarkable culprit. 
OR'DINARY, f. Settled eftablilhment.—Spain had no 
other wars fave thofe which were grown into an ordinary; 
now they have coupled therewith the extraordinary of the 
Valtoline and Palatinate. Bacon. — : Aft ual and conftant 
office.—Villiers had an intimation of the king’s pleafure 
to be his cup-bearer at large 5 and the fuminer following- 
lie was admitted in ordinary. Wotton. —He at laft accept¬ 
ed, and was foon after made chaplain in ordinary to his 
majefty. Fell. —Regular price of a meal. The meal itlelf: 
Our courteous Antony, 
Being barber’d ten times o’er, goes to the feaft; 
And for his ordinary pays his heart 
For what his eyes eat only. Shahefpeare. 
A place of eating eftablilhed at a certain price. — They 
reckon all their errours for accompliffiments ; and all 
the odd words they have picked up in a coftee-houfe, or 
a gaming ordinary , are produced as flowers of ftyle. 
Swift, —In Heraldry; fee that article, vol.' ix. p. 430. 
Ordinary, is alfo applied to feveral officers and fer- 
vants belonging to the king’s houfehold, who attend on 
common occafions. Thus we fay, Phyfician in ordinary, &c. 
Ordinary, is a term applied to (hips of war laid-up in 
harbours near the royal dock-yards. It is alfo the efta- 
bliftiment of the perfons employed by the government to 
take charge of them which are fo laid-up. Thefe are 
principally compofed of fuperintendent mailers, warrant- 
officers, and lervants of the faid fhips, except the purfer; 
alfo a certain number of feamen in time of peace, accord¬ 
ing to the fize of the ftiip. But, in war, there is a crew of 
labourers enrolled in the lift of the ordinary, who pafs 
from ftiip to ftiip occafionally, to pump, clean, moor, or 
tranfport them, whenever it is required. 
To OR'DINATE, v. a. [ovdinatus, Latin.] To appoint: 
Finding how the certain right did Hand, 
With full confent this man did ordinate 
The heir apparent to the crown and land. Daniel. 
OR'DINATE, adj. [ovdinatus, Latin.] Regular; me¬ 
thodical..— Ordinate figures are fuch as have all their fides 
and all their angles equal. Ray on the Creation. 
OR'DINATE, /! A line drawn perpendicular to the 
axis of a curve, and terminating the curvilinear fpace. 
—Each preceding quantity in fuch feries is as the area of 
a curvilinear figure, whereof the abfeifs is 2-, and the or¬ 
dinate is the following quantity. Bp. Berkeley's Analyjt. 
OR'DINATELY, adv. In a regular or methodical 
manner.—Necefl’ary ftudies fucceeding ordinately the lef- 
fon of poets. Sir T. Elyot's Gov. 
If I would apply 
To write ordinalcly, 
I wot not where to fynde 
Terms to ferve my mynde. Shelton. 
ORDINA'TION, f [ordinatio, Lat. from ordinate .] 
Eftablilhed order or tendency, confequent on a decree.— 
Every creature is good, partly by creation and partly by 
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ordination. Perkins. —Virtue and vice have a natural ordi¬ 
nation to the happinefs and mifery of life refpeftively. 
Norris. —The aft of inverting any man with facerdotal 
power.—Though ordained by Arian bilhops, his ordina¬ 
tion was never queftioned. Stilling-fleet. — St. Paul looks 
upon Titus as advanced to the dignity of a prime ruler of 
the church, and entrufted with a large diocefe under the 
immediate government of their refpeftive elders ; and 
thofe deriving authority from his ordination. South. 
Ordination of the Clergy. By common law, a 
deacon of any age might be militated and indufted to a 
parfonage or vicarage: but now, by ftatute, no man is 
capable of taking any ecclefiaftical benefice with cure, 
promotion, or dignity, unlefs he be ordained a prieft, to 
qualify him for the fame. A clerk is to be twenty-three 
years old, and have deacon’s orders, before he can be ad¬ 
mitted into anyjhare of the miniftry ; and the prie.J't mu ft 
be twenty-four years of age, before lie (hall be admitted 
into orders, to preach or to adminilter the facraments, 
or to hold any ecclefiaftical benefice ; but the archbilhop 
may difpenfe with one to be made deacon at what age he 
pleafes, though he can-not with one who is to be made a 
prieft. A prieft muft be full thirty years of age, before lie 
can be made a bifliop. 
If any impediment be objefted againft one who is to be 
made either prieft or deacon, at the time lie is to be or¬ 
dained, the bifliop is bound to furceale from ordaining 
him, until he fha.ll be found clear of that impediment; 
and it is generally held, that whatever are good caufes of 
deprivation are alfo iufficient caufes to deny admiffion 
to orders ; as incontinency, drunkennefs, illiterature, 
perjury, forgery, fimony, lierefy, outlawry, ballardy, &c. 
a Tuft. 631. 
Pr! .Its and deacons are not only to fubferibe the thirty- 
nine articles, but take the oath of the king’s fupremacy, 
See. as directed and altered by flat. 1 W. and M. c. 1, 
And the bifliop, at his ordination or cojifecration, takes 
in addition “ an oath of due obedience to the archbilhop.” 
The flat. 31 Eliz. c. 6, puniflies corrupt ordination of 
priefts, Sec. (which, fays Blackftone, fee ms to be the true, 
though not the common, notion of fimony. ) If any per¬ 
fons lhall take any reward, or other profits, to make and 
ordain a minifter, or to licenfe him to preach, they fliall 
by this ftatute forfeit 40I. and the party fo ordained, &c. 
iol. and be incapable of any ecclefiaftical preferment for 
feven years afterwards. 
The form of ordination in the Church of England is 
annexed to the Book of Common Prayer, and the autho¬ 
rity of it eftablilhed by 5 and 6 F.dw.VI. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. 
by art. 36. of the thirty-nine articles, by the eighth ca¬ 
non, and alfo by the aft of uniformity, 13 and 14 Car. II. 
c. 4. This a6l direfts, that all fubferiptions to be made 
to the thirty-nine articles fliall be con ft rued to extend 
(touching the 36th article above mentioned) to the book 
containing the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, 
and Confecrating, of Bifliops, Priefts, and Deacons, in 
this aft mentioned, as the fame did heretofore extend un¬ 
to the book let forth in the time of king Edward VI. 
By the 31 Eliz. c. 12, none fliall be admitted to the mi¬ 
niftry, unlefs he lhall firft fubferibe to all the articles of 
religion agreed upon in convocation in the year 1562, 
which only concern the confelfion of the true Chriftian 
faith, and the doftrine of the facraments. By Canon 36, 
no jSerfon fliall be received into the miniftry, except he 
lhall firft fubferibe to the following articles:' 1. That the 
king’s majefty, under God, is the only fupreme governor 
of this realm, and of all other his highnefs’s dominions 
and countries, as well in all fpiritual or ecclefiaftical 
things or caufes, as temporal; and that no foreign prince, 
perlon, prelate, llate, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, 
any jurifdiftion, power, fuperiority, pre-eminence, or au¬ 
thority, ecclefiaftical or fpiritual, within his majefty’s 
faid realms, dominions, and countries. 2. Tiiat the Book 
of Common Prayer, and of ordering of Bifliops, Priefts, 
and Deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary to the 
word 
