单词 | unordained |
释义 | unordainedadj. 1. Not ordained (in various senses); esp. uncontrolled; ungoverned, inordinate; disorderly. rare in later use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > not regulated or controlled unordainedc1390 unordinalc1400 unmannered1435 unorderly1566 uncontrolled1594 unmanaged1598 unordinate1610 unregulated?1623 unlicensed1680 unpoliced1753 c1390 Prickynge of Love (Vernon) f. 320v/2 Cutte a wei from þi flesch alle outragous & vn ordeynet lykynges. c1440 R. Rolle Desire & Delight (Thornton) 37 in Eng. Writings (1931) 58 Þe delyte þat has noghte of unordaynde styrrynge, and mekely has styrrynge in Criste. a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 80 An vnordeyned and a necligent oost axeth a[s] greet expensis and costis as a deligent & a wel ordeyned oost. 1494 W. Hilton Scala Perfeccionis (de Worde) ii. xl. sig. qiiii Al vnordeynde affeccyon of ony creature is sodeynly wasshen and wyped away. 1774 A. M. Toplady Hist. Proof Doctrinal Calvinism Church of Eng. I. x. 215 The Supreme God, whom they most justly believe to fore-know all Things, and to leave nothing un-ordained. 1941 Prairie Schooner 15 53 Here are the hills Of courage unordained and out of hand. 1996 D. Appelbaum Disruption x. 107 Imaging is unsolicited, unordained, and unthought... Its inchoate unruliness does not negate its sympathetic penchant to correspond. 2. a. Christian Church. Not ecclesiastically ordained; divested of holy orders, defrocked. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [adjective] > in orders > not un-i-hodedOE uncalled1561 unordered1588 unordained1647 uninstituted1702 1647 W. Prynne Sword Christian Magistracy Ep. Ded. sig. a4v The unordained preaching Lay-prophets. a1691 R. Baxter in E. Calamy Life (1702) vii. 131 There is a Duty in such a Case of Necessity, even on Persons unordain'd. 1756 J. Wesley Let. 3 Sept. (1931) III. 186 I do tolerate unordained persons in preaching the gospel, whereas I do not tolerate them in administering the sacraments. 1775 J. Cornish Blow at Root of all Priestly Claims 44 Some of them might be perhaps a little uneasy to have their children baptized by an unordained minister. 1804 Ann. Rev. 2 208 The distinction between ordained and unordained preachers. 1865 S. Wilberforce Let. 5 June in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1882) III. vi. 166 Brotherhoods of unordained men not in Holy Orders. 1915 L. Abbott Reminiscences xvi. 376 In all this double work my wife was an unordained co-pastor. 1997 A. Dulles Priestly Office iv. 58 The exercise of certain pastoral functions by members of the laity and by unordained religious. b. Not decreed; not appointed, unofficial. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > [adjective] > not prescribed unprescribed1549 unordained1815 1815 W. Wordsworth Ode 63 Be it not unordained that solemn rites..Shall be performed at pregnant intervals. 1851 H. Spencer Social Statics xxviii. 377 The intolerance shown by orthodox surgeons and physicians towards unordained followers of their calling, is to be understood as arising from a desire to defend the public against quackery. 1883 H. T. M. Bell Old Year Leaves 258 Secret intrigues shall not affright, Nor unordained taxation. 2008 J. K. Swisher Revolutionary War in Southern Back Country vii. 211 The call to arms circulated among the valleys and hills... Leadership was unordained, unadorned, and tenuous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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