单词 | ordinator |
释义 | ordinatorn. 1. A person who ordains (in various senses). rare.In quots. translating Latin ordinator: (in early use) †one who ordains others to the Christian ministry (obsolete); (in quot. 1979) one who ordains or orders something to be made, done, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun] > person performing ordainerc1390 ordinatorc1455 ordinant1842 c1455 Regiam Majestatem c. 46 And gif he [sc. a bondsman] be ordanit nocht witand his lord na his ordinatour na ȝit his presentor..he that sa is ordinyt salbe again callit in senutut. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 24 Gif he [sc. a bondsman] 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. 1979 Antiquaries Jrnl. 59 355 If some of the formulae..reflect the influence of the papal chancery, this strengthens the likelihood of the ordinator [of a Jarrow inscription] being a Jarrow monk. 2. God or a god regarded as the originator of the universe and the governing power. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > director mastereOE steerc897 ordainerc1443 director1477 rector1482 sayer1483 orderer1496 solicitera1530 temperator1591 ordinator1615 sternera1634 dirigent1756 chargé d'affaires1797 quarterback1931 1615 T. Adams White Deuill (ed. 4) 83 The wise Ordinator of all things. 1615 T. Adams Englands Sicknes ii. 57 Nature and her Ordinatour..God. 1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice ii. vii. 203 The necessity of an universal ordinator of the second causes both to their own ends..and..to that of the Universe. 1818 R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 127 His name signified the Ordinator or Regulator, as it does still in the modern Coptic. 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty i. 134 And wouldst thou play Creator and Ordinator of things. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xvi. 421 The world artificer (dēmiurges) is not a creator but, like the nus of Anaxagoras, an ordinator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1455 |
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