ordinant
English
editNoun
editordinant (plural ordinants)
Adjective
editordinant (comparative more ordinant, superlative most ordinant)
- 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
editVerb
editōrdinant