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Webster 1913 Edition

Ordinate

Or′di-nate

,
Adj.
[L.
ordinatus
, p. p. of
ordinare
. See
Ordain
.]
Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.
“A life blissful and ordinate.”
Chaucer.
Ordinate figure
(Math.)
,
a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.

Or′di-nate

,
Noun.
(Geom.)
The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.

Or′di-nate

,
Verb.
T.
To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
Bp. Hall.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ordinate

OR'DINATE

,
Verb.
T.
To appoint. [Not used.]

OR'DINATE

,
Adj.
[L. ordinatus.] Regular; methodical. An ordinate figure is one whose sides and angles are equal.

OR'DINATE

,
Noun.
In geometry and conic sections, a line drawn from any point of the circumference of an ellipsis or other conic section, perpendicularly across the axis to the other side.
An ordinate is a line drawn perpendicular to the axis of a curve and terminating the curvilinear space.
Ordinates of a curve, right lines parallel to one another, terminated by the curve, and bisected by a right line called the diameter.

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