Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An annual calendar containing instructions for the Mass and office to be celebrated on each day of the year.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In prosody, a colon or series.
  • noun In some Latin school-books, especially texts of poets, a rearrangement of the Latin words in English order.
  • noun Eccles.: A directory or book of rubrics.
  • noun An office or service with its rubrics.

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  • noun A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
  • noun Roman Catholicism A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin ōrdō, from Latin, order; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin ōrdō.

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Examples

  • “Ordinary” is from the Latin word ordo, “a regular row, line, or series, methodical arrangement, order” having the impact of “proper order”, not just any arrangement.

    How is it that a Church with 2,000 Years of History Can't Come up with a Term More Interesting than "Ordinary Time?" 2006

  • OH WAIT!!!! the novus ordo is a joke, just without a punch line.

    Catholic Humour Francis 2007

  • At the time when Master Pihringer came to dwell with us, Herdegen was already high enough to pass into the upper school, for he was first in his 'ordo'; but our guardian, the old knight Hans Im Hoff, of whom I shall have much to tell, held that he was yet too young for the risks of

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • At the time when Master Pihringer came to dwell with us, Herdegen was already high enough to pass into the upper school, for he was first in his 'ordo'; but our guardian, the old knight Hans Im Hoff, of whom I shall have much to tell, held that he was yet too young for the risks of

    Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • At the time when Master Pihringer came to dwell with us, Herdegen was already high enough to pass into the upper school, for he was first in his 'ordo'; but our guardian, the old knight Hans Im Hoff, of whom I shall have much to tell, held that he was yet too young for the risks of

    Margery — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • From its birth, the United States thus infused its diplomacy with a revolutionary ideology that looked to the creation of a novus ordo seclorum in the international sphere as well as the domestic.

    What Would Wilson Do? 2010

  • The people attached to the old use are happy to see the Extrordinary Form ordo, and for the others who know only the Ordinary Form, they can use the book to be enticed by the integration between the two forms.

    Report on Parish Mission 2009

  • Many people are seeking only a book with readings plus ordo and that's it, at a rock bottom price.

    Readings and Propers Only, for Sundays 2009

  • Quoting Stephen Padgett: A central tenet of ordo-liberalism is a clearly defined division of labor in economic management, with specific responsibilities assigned to particular institutions.

    Think Progress » Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate Every Bank In The Country’ 2010

  • It contains the ordo for both forms, and illustrates the way in which the ordinary chants are shared in both forms, and highlights the common use of chant for both forms.

    The Parish Book of Chant Moves Forward 2009

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