Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being ordained, destined, or appointed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.
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- adjective Capable of being
ordained ; worthy to be ordained orappointed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is no virtue whose act is not ordainable to the common good, as stated above, either mediately or immediately.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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Nevertheless human law does not prescribe concerning all the acts of every virtue, but only in regard to those that are ordainable to the common good—either immediately, as when certain things are done directly for the common good, or mediately, as when a lawgiver prescribes certain things pertaining to proper instructiong whereby the citizens are directed in the upholding of the common good of justice and peace.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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But if we speak of the soul of Christ as it is the instrument of the Word united to Him, it had an instrumental power to effect all the miraculous transmutations ordainable to the end of the Incarnation, which is "to re-establish all things that are in heaven and on earth"
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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His father was an engineer, and his mother was ordainable in the Disciples of Christ.
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