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Definition of Ordainers
1. ordainer [n] - See also: ordainer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordainers
Literary usage of Ordainers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"Four days later the ordainers were appointed, the method of their election ...
Twenty-one lords ordainers represented in somewhat unequal proportions the ..."
2. History of England from the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward by Thomas Frederick Tout (1905)
"Four days later the ordainers were appointed, the method of their election ...
Twenty-one lords ordainers represented in somewhat unequal proportions the ..."
3. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1913)
"While the ordainers were at work preparing in the first place preliminary ordinances
which they issued in August, and then the great body of ordinances ..."
4. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... resulted in a practical transfer of the royal power for a time to a committee
of prelates and barons called the The Lords ordainers.1 The fatal conflict ..."
5. The English Constitution: A Commentary on Its Nature and Growth by Jesse Macy (1896)
"The ordainers, for the time being, entirely displaced the Parliament. This is an
indication of the sort of Constitution which England would have had if the ..."
6. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"GAVESTON, THE ordainers, AND BANNOCKBURN. CHAP. EDWARD OF CARNARVON was over
twenty-three years of age XII> when he became king. ..."
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