ordinant

English

Noun

ordinant (plural ordinants)

1. (obsolete) One who ordains.

Adjective

ordinant (comparative more ordinant, superlative most ordinant)

1. Ordaining; decreeing.
   • 1872, John Ruskin, The Relation of Art to Morals:

     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,

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
     I had my father's signet in my purse,

Latin

Verb

ōrdinant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ōrdinō