Meanings
plural inordinations
- 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), London2 more examples
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, →OCLCArchons [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
- Latininordinatio
- Englishinordination
Latin inordinatio.
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