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Definition of Ordainer
1. Noun. A cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders.
Definition of Ordainer
1. n. One who ordains.
Definition of Ordainer
1. Noun. A person (usually a clergyman) who ordains. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ordainer
1. one that ordains [n -S] - See also: ordains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordainer
Literary usage of Ordainer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"And, for any bishop to ordain another bishop without observing this rule, is '
deposition' by the same law ' both for the ordained and his ordainer. ..."
2. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"... of its perpetrator; individual natures being as various and distinct as faces
and makes, but combining in general result the purpose of their ordainer. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"The ordainer« were necessarily bishops (see Wow. 11L 1, e. i). ... by actually
deposing the ordainer, and (if a willing participator iu the irregularity) ..."
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