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- noun Plural form of
ordainer .
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Examples
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Thus, even if the Mulasarvastivada bhikshuni ordination is restarted without the brahmacharya ordination beforehand and is performed only by bhikshus, the ordination is valid and the infraction of the ordainers is a small price to pay for reinstating the ordination.
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Even if bhikshunis are ordained without brahmacharya ordination first, Buddha said the ordination is valid, although the ordainers incur a minor infraction.
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The eleventh-century CE Kashmiri scholar Gunavarmin wrote that the ordination was valid even without the brahmacharya ordination beforehand, although the ordainers incur an infraction.
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The Mulasarvastivada Vinaya specifies many such cases in which alternative methods by which bhikshuni and bhikshu ordination may be validly conferred, but which entail minor infractions for the ordainers.
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Ghost makes men bishops or overseers of the Church in three several respects: By qualifying them for the office; by directing the ordainers to discern their qualifications, and know the fittest men; and by directing them, the people and themselves, for the affixing them to a particular charge.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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God also giveth men the qualifications which he requireth; so that, all that the Church hath to do, whether pastors or people, ordainers or electors, is but to discern and determine which are the men that God hath thus qualified, and to accept of them that are so provided, and, upon consent, to install them solemnly in this office.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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Ye are the ordainers of the fruits of all acts from which even the gods are not free!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Ye are the ordainers of the fruits of all acts from which even the gods are not free!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The Priest or Medicine-Man -- or rather the succession of Priests or Medicine-Men -- whose figures would recur again and again as leaders and ordainers of the ceremonies, would be glorified at last into the composite-image of a God in whom were concentrated all magic powers.
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The brain and soul of the ordainers, he equally made it his business to uphold extreme hierarchical privilege.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892
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