Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ruling; overruling; disposing; directing; ordaining.
  • noun One who ordains; a prelate who confers orders.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who ordains.
  • adjective obsolete Ordaining; decreeing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who ordains.

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Examples

  • Cum autem volunt ad pugnam accedere, omnes acies ordinant sicut deberent pugnare.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • De puellis faciunt illud idem, quos in terram eorum deducunt et tenent eos pro seruis: reliquos numerant et ordinant secundum morem.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • L s M: Pbilofophk Optm., neceffario femper ab inuicem ad Retinam vfque magis di~ uaricantur j &: in eam pro fitu fuffieienter diftinguibili inci - dentes j nihilominus, iuxta di&a, coincidentes cum ajiis eiuk dern Signabilis, ordinant diftin&am imprelTionem repra*fen - tatiuoruni, pluribus huiufmodi Signabilihus 5 in Vifione con - diftinguendis s refpondentium ..

    Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

  • Then imagine that muscular firmness and subtlety, and the instantaneously selective and ordinant energy of the brain, sustained all day long, not only without fatigue, but with a visible joy in the exertion, like that which an eagle seems to take in the wave of his wings; and this all life long, and through long life, not only without failure of power, but with visible increase of it, until the actually organic changes of old age.

    Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

  • Then imagine that muscular firmness and subtlety, and the instantaneously selective and ordinant energy of the brain, sustained all day long, not only without fatigue, but with a visible joy in the exertion, like that which an eagle seems to take in the wave of his wings; and this all life long, and through long life, not only without failure of power, but with visible increase of it, until the actually organic changes of old age.

    Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

  • The subject was the unusual cruelty towards civilians, including the summary shooting of male teens and the use of white phosphorus as a chemical weapon; the goopers played it up that WP wasn’t a chemical weapon, it was an ordinant blah-de-blah-de-blah about the technical reasons, redirecting attention from the horrific wounds on the bodies of women, children, teenagers, old person lying in their beds…

    Firedoglake » Bubble Boy No Longer? Hmmmm… 2006

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