Word Meanings - FOREORDINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

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• ORDINATION
  The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• PREVIOUS
  Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
• PREDESTINATION
  The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism. (more info) 1. The act of predestinating. Predestination had overruled their will. Milton.
• INSUBORDINATION
  The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• MISORDINATION
  Wrong ordination.
• DISORDINATION
  The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. Bacon.
• INORDINATION
  Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy. South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.
• REORDINATION
  A second ordination.
• FOREORDINATION
  Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
• DISAPPOINTMENT
  1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment
• REAPPOINTMENT
  The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.
• FOREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood.
• DEORDINATION
  Disorder; dissoluteness. Excess of rideordination. Jer. Taylor.
• SUBORDINATION
  1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting. 2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection. Natural creature having a local subordination. Holyday. 3. Place
• SUPERORDINATION
  The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.
• PREORDINATION
  The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.