ordinate
Example Sentences
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“Would it be in an ordinate amount, you know, something crazy? No, it’s not going to be that.”
From Seattle Times
The Catholic Church does not ordinate women as priests.
From Washington Times
This new debate only focuses on the Amazon region, and would definitely not open any doors for already ordinated priests to take a spouse.
From Salon
“He doesn’t know much. We do a good job of sheltering him, but it’s been hard. And there’s an ordinate amount of fear that goes with that.”
From Fox News
By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.