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[ordenal] (s.xiii1)
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[ordenal] (s.xiii1)

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ordinal,  hordinal  
  FEW:  ordinalis 7,395a Gdf:  ordinal 5,618a GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  ordinal  TLF:  ordinal  OED:  ordinal n.1  / ordinal a. and n.2  MED:  ordinal n.  DMLBS:  ordinalis 2047c

The DMF’s decision to interpret the word as derivative of Latin ordinarius, and to gloss it accordingly, seems to be at odds with the etymological evidence of ordinalis. Perhaps with the exception of sense 2, the word seems to be used as a (rare) synonym for ordenaire.

s.

1statusrule, authority: 
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  ceux q'ont fals le cuer ou pitz, Qui sont profess pour faire pis Soubz l'ombre de leur ordinal  GOWER Mirour 21612
♦eccl.rule, ordinance: 
( 1397 )  trestoutz mes messalx et autres livres de ma chapelle, qui sount del use et ordinal de la esglise cathedrales [sic] de Sarum  Test Ebor i 228.36
2eccl.liturgicalliteratureordinal, service book (detailing the order of Church services of the Ecclesiastical Year and other ecclesiastical rules): 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  Sint etiam libri [sive] codices: missale, breviarium, antifonarium [...], troparium, ordinale (gloss: hordinal) sive consuetudinarium  TLL i 190.172 and ii 106.172
( 1338-39 )  vous (=prioress and sub-prioress) commaundums [...] qe vous eyez un ordinal de votre service saunz demere ou delay parconse  Lett AF 151

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See also:

ordenaire  ordenairement  ordenalment  ordenance  ordenation  ordene  ordenement  ordenément  ordener1  ordenour  ordre  ordré 
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