ordinator

plural ordinators

1. One who ordains or establishes; a director.

   if nature and her ordinator, God, deny health, how unvaluable are their riches, how unavailable their projects!

   1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons

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   The plan which has proved most satisfactory is something like this: One teacher, the class ordinator, is made responsible for the general discipline and progress of a class.

   1905 January, Ossian H. Lang, “The Educational Outlook”, in The Forum, volume 36, number 3, page 435

   God is ordinator no less than creator; if he is naturarum bonarum creator, he is also malarum uoluntatum ordinator; if human wills make a bad use of good things , he in turn makes a good use even of evil wills.

   1916, Thomas Alexander Lacey, Nature, Miracle and Sin, page 58

   This is the only synod in America to have an ordinator, and it is here that the Lutheran resembles the Episcopalian. But the ordinator is not consecrated—that is not a Danish custom—his office resembling that of the superintendents in Germany.

   1917 January 13, R. Andersen, “Short History of the Danish Reformation”, in The Living Church, volume 56, page 361

   During the social hour, he went to the office of the assistant ordinator, a weasel-faced man wearing the dark blue Interchange uniform as if it were a privilege.

   2011, Jack Vance, The Killing Machine