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What is an ordo?

What is an ordo? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
  2. (Roman Catholicism) A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.
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A senator's son belonged to the ordo senatorius, but he had to qualify on his own merits for admission to the Senate itself.
What rule should a priest follow when he finds in the ordo a regulation which he believes to be certainly incorrect?
One purpose of the Roman census was to determine the ordo to which an individual belonged.
The ordo equester is much irritated with the senate on the question of the contracts for the collection of the Asiatic taxes.
Not all men who qualified for the ordo senatorius chose to take a Senate seat, which required legal domicile at Rome.
In this ordo it is stated that the colour in Missa Defunctorum is niger vel violaceus.

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