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|lshtext=<b>ordĭnātĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[ordino]],<br /><b>I</b> a setting in [[order]], regulating, arranging; an [[order]], [[arrangement]], [[regulation]] ([[mostly]] postAug.).<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An [[orderly]] [[regulation]] of [[state]] affairs, [[rule]], [[government]]: [[quid]] ordinatione civilius? ... [[quam]] turpe, si [[ordinatio]] eversione, [[libertas]] servitute mutetur? Plin. Ep. 8, 24, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An appointing to [[office]], installation of magistrates, governors: [[cur]] sibi [[visum]] esset ordinatione proximā Aegypto praeficere Metium Rufum, Suet. Dom. 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[regulation]], [[ordinance]], [[decree]], [[edict]] of an [[emperor]]: cum rerum omnium [[ordinatio]] ... observanda [[sit]], tum, etc., Plin. Ep. 10, 58 (66), 10. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Eccl. Lat.) Ordination: [[episcopalis]], Sid. Ep. 7, 6 fin.: cleri, August. Bon. Conj. 24; Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 9, 36.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf.: dispositis ordinationibus, in ranks, rows, App. M. 10, p. 253.