verb transitive

ordĭno

2nd PP ordĭnāre · 3rd PP ordĭnāvi · 4th PP ordĭnātum · conj. 1st

to order; set in order; arrange

to order, set in order, arrange, adjust, dispose, regulate.

In gen. (class.; syn.: dispenso, dispono): copias, Nep. Iph. 2, 2; so, milites,… •••

In gen. (class.; syn.: dispenso, dispono): copias, Nep. Iph. 2, 2; so, milites, Liv. 29, 1: agmina, Hor. Epod. 17, 9; and: aciem, Just. 11, 9, 8: arbusta latius sulcis, Hor. C. 3, 1, 9: vineam paribus intervallis, Col. 3, 13: res suas suo arbitrio, Sen. Ep. 9, 14: partes orationis, Cic. Inv. 1, 14, 9: litem, id. de Or. 2, 10, 43: causam, Dig. 40, 12, 24: judicium, ib. 40, 12, 25: testamentum, ib. 5, 2, 2: bibliothecas, Suet. Gram. 21.—

to draw up in order; to narrate the history of public events; recorded events according to the years of the magistrates by extension •

Transf.: cupiditates improbas, to arrange, draw up in order of battle, Sen. Ep. 10, 2: publicas res (= συντάττειν, componere), to draw up in order, to narrate the history of public events, Hor. C. 2, 1, 10 (antiquitatem) totam in eo volumine exposuerit, quo magistratus ordinavit, i. e. recorded events according to the years of the magistrates, Nep. Att. 18, 1: cum omnia ordinarentur, Cic. Sull. 19, 53.—

In partic. (post-Aug.).

To rule; govern ••

To rule, govern a country: statum liberarum civitatum, Plin. Ep. 8, 24, 7: Macedoniam, Flor. 2, 16: provinciam, Suet. Galb. 7: Orientem, id. Aug. 13.—

To ordain; appoint to office •

To ordain, appoint to office: magistratus, Suet. Caes. 76: tribunatus, praefecturas, et ducatus, to dispose of, give away, Just. 30, 2, 5; so, filium in successionem regni, Just. 17, 1, 4.—Hence,

To ordain; to admit to a clerical office; well ordered ••

(Eccl. Lat.) To ordain as a priest or pastor, to admit to a clerical office, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 45; Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 9, 36; cf.: in ministerium sanctorum ordinaverunt se ipsos, Vulg. 1 Cor. 16, 15.—Hence, ordĭ-nātus, a, um, P. a., well ordered, orderly, ordained, appointed (class.): compositus ordinatusque vir, Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 3: igneae formae cursus ordinatos definiunt, perform their appointed courses, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 101.—Comp.: vita ordinatior, Sen. Ep. 74, 25: pars mundi ordinatior, Sen. Ira, 3, 6.—Sup.: meatus ordinatissimi, App. de Deo Socrat. p. 42.—Hence, adv.: ordĭnā-tē, in an orderly manner, in order, methodically (not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 811; v. ordinatim): tamquam (astra) non possent tam disposite, tam ordinate moveri, Lact. 2, 5, 15: ordinate disponere, Auct. Her. 4, 56, 69 dub.—Comp.: ordinatius retractare, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 19 init.—Sup.: ordinatissime subjunxit, Aug. Retract. 1, 24.

Perseus ID: n32944 Key: ordino