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Definition of Ordains
1. ordain [v] - See also: ordain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordains
Literary usage of Ordains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council, Peter Hume Brown, Evan Whyte Melville Balfour-Melville, Henry Paton (1906)
"The Lords ordains the haul counsellers absent with the clerks and ... and ordains
the Clerk of Counsell to present the same to thame and to take thair ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... on any ground or under any pretence, it ordains and establishes in terms the
Constitution of the United States as the Supreme Law of the land, ..."
3. A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical from the by Benjamin Trumbull (1818)
"Repre<- sentation of the constitution it ordains, and the privileges it conveys.
Difficulties of the colony of New-Haven. Governor Leet^s address. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"It ordains nothing new, except the temporary provisions for its own enforcement,
provisions which give a legal sanction to the natural right of resisting a ..."
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