SEMI-OR'DINATE, noun [semi and ordinate.] In conic sections, a line drawn at right angles to and bisected by the axis, and reaching from one side of the section to the other; the half of which is properly semi-ordinate but is now called the ordinate.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.