| 单词 | ordinant | 
| 释义 | ordinantn.adj. Now rare.  A. n.  a.  An officer who assigns soldiers their places in battle. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1460    Knyghthode & Bataile 		(Pembr. Cambr. 243)	 574 (MED)  				We werreours, forthi go we to feelde; And as our name in ordir in the rolle is, Our ordynaunt, so sette vs.  b.  A priest who confers holy orders. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > 			[noun]		 > person performing ordainerc1390 ordinatorc1455 ordinant1842 1842    W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 854/2  				Ordinant, a prelate conferring orders. 1883    P. Schaff  et al.  Relig. Encycl. II. 1701  				The Council of Trent declares..that the words of the ordinant, ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost’, have efficacy.  2.  Mathematics. The ordinate of a point (ordinate adj. 2). Also: a straight line parallel to the y-axis. ΚΠ 1942    Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 29 197  				Of course the intrinsic value as read from the ordinants of these graphs (geographical distribution read from the abscissas) is not significant. 1964    Jrnl. Ecol. 52 176  				If the guide curve of average height over age crossed the 50-year ordinant at 94 ft, then the 60 ft site index curve would be 60/94 = 0.64 of the corresponding height of the guide curve at any given age. 1993    Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 5823  				The calculated values of a and Rb that correspond to the experimental resistance changes are shown on the right hand ordinant of Fig. 4.  B. adj.   Of a person or thing: able to order or direct; that orders, arranges, or regulates. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > 			[adjective]		 > able or qualified to command masterfulc1440 ordinanta1460 masterlya1544 society > authority > control > 			[adjective]		 > regulating regulative1599 ordinant1604 ordinative1605 well-ordering1619 regulating1628 regulatory1775 a1460    Knyghthode & Bataile 		(Pembr. Cambr. 243)	 855 (MED)  				The consulys, for themperour Legatys, Sende vnto the oste; to thaim obtemperaunt Was al the legioun and al the statys; They were of al the werres ordynaunt. a1500						 (?a1425)						    tr.  Secreta Secret. 		(Lamb.)	 109  				Be þy comandour swyfte & qweynte & ordinant [L. disponens]. 1604    W. Shakespeare Hamlet  v. ii. 49  				Euen in that was heauen ordinant .       View more context for this quotation 1815    C. E. Grice Battle of New Orleans V. v. 54  				Forgive me, Edward, if unsexed to day, you see me here, a soldier by your side. In her dear country's cause, a woman's spirit towers above her sex—and heaven in this was ordinant. 1864    G. H. Calvert Arnold & André I. ii. 36  				In all, his [sc. Washington's] mighty spirit's ordinant. 1870    J. Ruskin Lect. Art iii. 72  				The instantaneously selective and ordinant energy of the brain. 1944    Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 8 202  				The basic concept is that of the regal and ordinant Sun or Soma, who ‘moves across the waters, himself the Bridge’. 1951    J. V. Cunningham Woe or Wonder  v, in  J. V. Cunningham  & A. Swallow Trad. & Poet. Structure 		(1960)	 255  				Man proposes, and God disposes. Indeed, Heaven is ordinant even in the accidental details. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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