ordinant

plural ordinants

1. obsoleteOne who ordains.

comparative more ordinant · superlative most ordinant

1. Ordaining; decreeing.

   Why, even in that was heaven ordinant. I had my father's signet in my purse,

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]

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   Then imagine that muscular firmness and subtlety, and the instantaneously selective and ordinant energy of the brain, sustained all day long, not only without fatigue, but with a visible joy in the exertion,

   1872, John Ruskin, The Relation of Art to Morals