ordinatio
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ordĭnātĭo: ōnis, f. ordino,
I a setting in order, regulating, arranging; an order, arrangement, regulation (mostly postAug.).
I Lit.: architectura constat ex ordinatione, quae Graece τάξις> dicitur, et ex dispositione. Ordinatio est modica membrorum operis commoditas separatim, universaeque proportionis ad symmetriam comparatio, Vitr. 1, 2.—Of vines, Col. 4, 29, 12.—
II Trop.
A In gen., an ordering, regulating, orderly arrangement: comitiorum, Vell. 2, 124, 3: anni, Suet. Aug. 31: vitae, Plin. Ep. 9, 28, 4: mundus est ornata ordinatio dei munere, App. de Mundo, 1, p. 251.—
B In partic.
1 An orderly regulation of state affairs, rule, government: quid ordinatione civilius? ... quam turpe, si ordinatio eversione, libertas servitute mutetur? Plin. Ep. 8, 24, 8.—
2 An appointing to office, installation of magistrates, governors: cur sibi visum esset ordinatione proximā Aegypto praeficere Metium Rufum, Suet. Dom. 4.—
3 A regulation, ordinance, decree, edict of an emperor: cum rerum omnium ordinatio ... observanda sit, tum, etc., Plin. Ep. 10, 58 (66), 10. —
4 (Eccl. Lat.) Ordination: episcopalis, Sid. Ep. 7, 6 fin.: cleri, August. Bon. Conj. 24; Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 9, 36.—
5 Transf.: dispositis ordinationibus, in ranks, rows, App. M. 10, p. 253.
