| 释义 |
ˈordinator
[a. L. ordinātor, agent-n. f. ordināre to ordain.]
One who ordains.
1. One who orders, regulates, directs, or governs. rare.
1615T. Adams Two Sonnes 83 The wise ordinator of all things. 1615― Enq. Sickness ii. Wks. 1861 I. 424 Nature, and her ordinator, God. 1680H. Dodwell Two Lett. (1691) 162 The necessity of an universal ordinator of the second causes both to their own ends..and..to that of the Universe. 1818R. P. Knight Symb. Lang. (1876) 127 His name signified the Ordinator or Regulator, as it does still in the modern Coptic. 1929R. Bridges Testament of Beauty i. 134 And wouldst thou play Creator and Ordinator of things. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xvi. 421 The world artificer (dēmiurges) is not a creator but, like the nus of Anaxagoras, an ordinator.
†2. One who ordains to the Christian ministry. Obs. rare.
1609Skene Reg. Maj. 24 Gif he [a bondman] be ordered without the knawledge of his maister, and of his ordinator,..he sall be called back againe to bondage, and sall be randered to his maister. |