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orˈdaining, vbl. n.
[See -ing1.]
The action of the verb ordain in its various senses; ordination. Now only gerundial and attrib.
c1315Shoreham Poems (E.E.T.S.) 6 Of harder stat god graunteþ, Wel tokne þrowȝ his ordininge. 1375Barbour Bruce xix. 26 Scho tald all to the king Thair purpos and thair ordanyng. 1509Hawes Past. Pleasure xxxiii. (Percy Soc.) 168 For me my suppour was in ordeyning. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 457 b, [They] reiecte the Sacramentes of the churche, and contemne the ordeining of priestes. 1643Milton Divorce Pref., In the first ordaining of mariage. 1662(title) The Book of Common Prayer,..with..the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons.
attrib.1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xvii. §292 The ordaining power of the crown in council became distinguishable by very definite marks from the enacting power of the crown in parliament. |