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orˈdainment
[a. AF. ordeinement; see ordain v. and -ment.]
1. The action or fact of ordaining; appointment; authoritative order; institution; ordinance.
13..Coer de L. 1144 Kyng Rychard they afftyr sente, For to her that ordeynemente. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1851) 224 (Matt. xix. 7) Tutelage, an ordainment then which nothing more just, being for the defence of Orfanes. 1649― Eikon. xvii. ibid. 464 Bishops rather by custom, then any ordainment of Christ, were exalted above Presbyters. 1881G. Macdonald Mary Marston III. vii. 119 According to the sweet inexorability of musical ordainment.
2. Divine or superhuman appointment; an ordinance of the Deity, of fate, etc.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iii. §6 A true or worthy end of their being and ordainment. 1824Hood Two Swans x, Redeem'd from sleepy death, for beauty's sake, By old ordainment. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. III. i. §26. 19 It is an illustration of an ordainment to which the earth and its creatures owe their continuance, and their Redemption. 1895Eclectic Mag. Mar. 297 The divine ordainment of kingship was an article of faith with him. |