ordinative

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adjective

Tending to ordain; directing; giving orders.

OriginLatin ordinativus →
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Meanings

adjectiveordinative (comparative more ordinative, superlative most ordinative)

comparative more ordinative · superlative most ordinative

  1. Tending to ordain; directing; giving orders.

    […]this Ordinative power which duly is in the Ministeriall order of the Church

    1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes

Origin

  1. Latinordinativus
  2. Englishordinative

From Latin ordinativus.

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Chicago

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