ordo

[ awr-doh ]

noun,plural or·di·nes

[awr-dn-eez]. /ˈɔr dnˌiz/.

Roman Catholic Church. a booklet containing short and abbreviated directions for the contents of the office and Mass of each day in the year.

Origin of ordo

1840–50; <Medieval Latin ōrdō,Latin: series, row, order

They exhibit the three indispensable gifts of the finest authorship: "simplicitas munditiis," "lucidus ordo," "curiosa felicitas."
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus | Tacitus
What rule should a priest follow when he finds in the ordo a regulation which he believes to be certainly incorrect?
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 | Various
But if the mistake be not clearly and evidently such, the priest should follow the ordo.
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 | Various
Referring to the words 'et nullus ordo,' in Job x. 22; see 177 above.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer
Primo ratione ordinis connotandi, ut scilicet ordo reparationis responderet ordini praevaricationis.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn Taylor

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