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ordinately

ordinately adverb: in an ordinate manner; regular; orderly.

Adverb

ordinately (comparative more ordinately, superlative most ordinately)

  1. In an ordinate manner; regular; orderly.
    • […] as if it be but exactly round (as there are abundance of such stones found betwixt two hills in Cuba, an Island of America) or ordinately Quinquangular, or have the sides but Parallel, though the Angles be unequal, as is seen in some little stones, and in a kind of Alabaster found here in...1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 54

Forms of ordinately

comparativemore ordinately
superlativemost ordinately

Origin of ordinately

From ordinate + -ly.

Words formed from ordinately

Questions about ordinately

What does ordinately mean?
Ordinately means in an ordinate manner; regular; orderly.
What part of speech is ordinately?
Ordinately is an adverb.

Words near ordinately in the dictionary

  1. ordinate dimension
  2. ordinate dimensioned
  3. ordinate dimensioning
  4. ordinate dimensions
  5. ordinated
  6. ordinately
  7. ordinates
  8. ordinating
  9. ordination
  10. ordination hall
  11. ordination mill

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