ordinator
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who ordains or establishes; a director.
Example Sentences
- "if nature and her ordinator, God, deny health, how unvaluable are their riches, how unavailable their projects!"
- "The plan which has proved most satisfactory is something like this: One teacher, the class ordinator, is made responsible for the general discipline and progress of a class."
- "God is ordinator no less than creator; if he is naturarum bonarum creator, he is also malarum uoluntatum ordinator; if human wills make a bad use of good things , he in turn makes a good use even of evil wills."
- "This is the only synod in America to have an ordinator, and it is here that the Lutheran resembles the Episcopalian. But the ordinator is not consecrated—that is not a Danish custom—his office resembling that of the superintendents in Germany."
- "During the social hour, he went to the office of the assistant ordinator, a weasel-faced man wearing the dark blue Interchange uniform as if it were a privilege."
Etymology
From Latin ōrdinātor, from ōrdināre + -tor.