ordinant
English
Adjective
ordinant (comparative more ordinant, superlative most ordinant)
- 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. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act V
- Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
I had my father's signet in my purse,
- Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
- 1872, John Ruskin, The Relation of Art to Morals
Latin
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