Definition of Reordain

1. v. t. To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective.

Definition of Reordain

1. Verb. (transitive) To ordain (a church official) again. ¹

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Definition of Reordain

1. ordain [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: ordain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reordain

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reopposed
reopposes
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reops
reoptimize
reoptimized
reoptimizes
reoptimizing
reorchestrate
reorchestrated
reorchestrates
reorchestrating
reorchestration
reorchestrations
reordain (current term)
reordained
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reorder
reorderability
reorderable
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reorderer
reorderers
reordering
reorderings
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reordination
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Literary usage of Reordain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Church of Christ: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Students by William Palmer (1841)
"The more general custom of the church, however, appears to have been, to reordain those who had been ordained in open heresy or schism. ..."

2. An Essay on Apostolical Succession: Being a Defence of a Genuine Protestant by Thomas Powell (1846)
"No bishop in Scotland, during my stay in that kingdom," saith Burnet, bishop of Sarum, " ever did so much as desire any of the Presbyterians to be reordain- ..."

3. Book of common prayer. Return to an address of the House of commons, for by Commission for regulating and inspecting into ecclesiastical affairs (1854)
"But the BP. laid before them the Case of the Scotch Bishops who •were Consecrated BP5. without being reordain'd Priests; and that K. James 1''. ..."

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