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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.

 

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