ordain
verb (used with object)
to invest with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions.
ordainer
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a word derived from
ordain.
Example Sentences
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Do thou, therefore, thyself speak for the good of king Yudhishthira the just, for thou art the ordainer of all the ordinances.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Let us say that the cause which led the supreme ordainer to produce and compose this universe is, that he was good; and he who is good has no species of envy.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
He is at most the infallible judge of actions, not the universal ordainer of events and distributor of life and happiness.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
In short, the world is a school; men are pupils in this school; God is its builder and ordainer.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
A belief in one true God, the creator and ordainer of all things.
From The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
