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ordinatio

ordinatio · f

a setting in order

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Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 13 · 1.84/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
De Architectura 5 · 0.87/10k
Letters 5 · 0.77/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ordĭnātĭo — 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 ta/cis 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.

In the wild

ordinationem Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.18.p4
ordinatione Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.18.p4
ordinationem Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.7
ordinatione Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.24.7
ordinationem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.24.2
ordinationibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.29

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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