Word Meanings - COORDAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.
Related words: (words related to COORDAIN)
- PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - ORDAINMENT
Ordination. Burke. - ALONGSIDE
Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - 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. - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - APPOINTABLE
Capable of being appointed or constituted. - 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. - ALONGSHORE
Along the shore or coast. - ALONG
and- (akin to OFris. ond-, OHG. ant-, Ger. ent-, Goth. and-, anda-, 1. By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden. 2. In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. - ORDAINABLE
Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed. Bp. Hall. - ANOTHER-GAINES
Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney. - PURPOSELY
With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they - KALONG
A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis). - FOREORDAIN
To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker. - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment. - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer. - 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.