ordt (ord)

[Also orde; ME. ord, E. odd, not even: see odd ).] 1. A point. = point (> point (> = Sw.u udde, a a point, p IMG:content-1804.jpg:[blocks in formation] Ord and ende he hath him told, Hu blauncheflur was tharinne isold. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 52. ord. An abbreviation of ordinal, ordinance, or dinary, and order. ordain (ôr-dān'), v. t. [ William went al bi-fore as wis man & nobul, & ordeyned anon his ost [host] in thre grete parties. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3791. IMG:content-1805.png:[blocks in formation] (b) Eccles., to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon; appoint to or formally introduce into the ministerial office: used especially of admi ion to the priesthood, as distinguished from making a deacon and consecrating a bishop. See ordination, 2. If he were ordeynd clerke. Rob. of Brunne , p. 129. He ordained twelve, that they should be with him and that he might send them forth to preach, And to have power to heal sickne es, and to cast out devils. Mark iii. 14, 15. =Syn. 3. To destine, enact, order, prescribe, enjoin. In regard to the making of human laws or the acts of Providence, ordain is the most weighty and solemn word in use: as, the Mayor and Common Council do ordain; "the powers that be are ordained of God," Rom. xiii. 1. 4142 tween certain Plow-shares red hot, according to the Orda lian Law, which without harm she perform'd. Milton, Hist. Eng., vi. ordaliumt (ôr-dā'li-um), n. [NL.: see ordeal.] Same as ordeal. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 112. ordet, n. See ord. Chaucer. ordeal (ôr'dē-al), n. and a. [ By ordal or by ooth, By sort, or in what wyse so yow leste. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1046. Such tests of truth as Ordeal and Compurgation satisfy men's minds completely and easily. Maine, Early Hist. of Inst., p. 48. If from Thy ordeal's heated bars Our feet are seamed with crimson scars, Thy will be done! Whittier, Thy Will be Done. 2. A severe trial; trying circumstances; a severe test of courage, endurance, patience, etc. The villanous ordeal of the papal custom-house. Hawthorne, Marble Faun, xi. =Syn. 2. Proof, experiment, touchstone. II. a . Pertaining to trial by ordeal. Their ordeale lawes which they vsed in doubt full cases, when cleere and manifest proofes wanted. Hake will , Apology, IV. ii. § 5. Ordeal bark. See bark2 . - Ordeal bean, ordeal nut. Same as Calabar bean (which see, under bean1 ). ordeal-root (or'de-al-röt), n. The root of a The nature of man is ordainable to life. Bp . Hall , Remains, p. 377. (Latham.) ordainer (ôr-dā'nėr), n . [ ordeinour , or denour, That he werre his wardein, & al is ordeinour To is wille to will i him & to the king's honour. Rob. of Gloucester, p. 469. IMG:content-1806.png:[blocks in formation] tion of the king's household, etc. The Ordainers took their oath on the 20th of March in the Painted Chamber; foremost among them was Arch. bishop Winchelsey, who saw himself supported by six of his brethren. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 251. (ct) One who institutes, founds, or creates. And thus he offended truth even in his first attempt; for, not content with his created nature, and thinking it too low to be the highest creature of God, he offended the ordainer, not only in the attempt but in the wish and simple violation thereof. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., і, 11. (d) One who appoints to office, especially one who confers holy orders; one who invests another with ministerial or sacerdotal functions.