3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.
ORDINATIVE
Or"di*na*tive, a. Etym: [L. ordinativus.]
Defn: Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.
ORDINATOR
Or"di*na`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.
ORDNANCE Ord"nance, n. Etym: [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. See Ordinance.]
Defn: Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.
ORDONNANCE
Or"don*nance, n. Etym: [F. See Ordinance.] (Fine Arts)
Defn: The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge.
ORDONNANT
Or"don*nant, a. Etym: [F., p. pr. of ordonner. See Ordinant.]