Word Meanings - PREORDAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.

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• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• FOREORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• 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
• APPOINTOR
  The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
• APPOINTIVE
  Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
• APPOINT
  To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
• ORDAINER
  One who ordains.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• APPOINTABLE
  Capable of being appointed or constituted.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• ORDAIN
  To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination. Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• ORDAINABLE
  Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed. Bp. Hall.
• APPOINTEE
  A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton. (more info) 1. A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives .
• PREDETERMINE
  1. To determine beforehand. Sir M. Hale. 2. To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• PREORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.
• COORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.
• PREAPPOINT
  To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• 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