ordinant

English

Noun

ordinant (plural ordinants)

  1. (obsolete) One who ordains.

Adjective

ordinant (comparative more ordinant, superlative most ordinant)

  1. Ordaining; decreeing.
    • 1872, John Ruskin, The Relation of Art to Morals:
      Then imagine that muscular firmness and subtlety, and the instantaneously selective and ordinant energy of the brain, sustained all day long, not only without fatigue, but with a visible joy in the exertion,
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
      Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
      I had my father's signet in my purse,

Latin

Verb

ōrdinant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of ōrdinō
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