inordination

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noun

Deviation or irregularity from custom, rule, order, or right

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nouninordination (countable and uncountable, plural inordinations)

plural inordinations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableDeviation or irregularity from custom, rule, order, or right

    that intrinsick Inordination and Deviation from Right reason

    1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
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    Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition.

    1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC

    Archons [of the first rank] exhibit, together with themselves, certain portions of the world; but other archons attract to themselves the inordination and confusion of matter.

    1895, Iamblichus, translated by Thomas Taylor, Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians

Origin

  1. Latininordinatio
  2. Englishinordination

Latin inordinatio.

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