Definition of "ordo" []

• Roman Catholic Church An annual calendar containing instructions for the Mass and office to be celebrated on each day of the year. (noun)

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• "“Ordinary” is from the Latin word ordo, “a regular row, line, or series, methodical arrangement, order” having the impact of “proper order”, not just any arrangement."
• "OH WAIT!!!! the novus ordo is a joke, just without a punch line."
• "At the time when Master Pihringer came to dwell with us, Herdegen was already high enough to pass into the upper school, for he was first in his 'ordo'; but our guardian, the old knight Hans Im Hoff, of whom I shall have much to tell, held that he was yet too young for the risks of"