Crossword-Solution: ORDAINING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ordaining | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Ordain |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ORDAINING”
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| Admitting to the priesthood | 1 answer |
| Bishop's happy task | 1 answer |
| Making a father of | 1 answer |
| Priest-making | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ORDAINING (5)
And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was “_to form a more perfect Union._” But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is _less_ perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.
Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
For of what use would this precaution be, if there were nothing to gain by it? No one would think of ordaining that none but astronomers and geographers should be pilots, nor of prohibiting stutterers from acting at the theatre and the opera.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS The states of Syracuse and Ephesus being at variance, there was a cruel law made at Ephesus, ordaining that if any merchant of Syracuse was seen in the city of Ephesus, he was to be put to death, unless he could pay a thousand marks for the ransom of his life.
The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.
Quotes with ORDAINING (3)
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
The Rakshasa," said Percy pedantically, "are a different breed altogether from our vampires. Much in the same way that poodles and dachshunds are different breeds of dog. Rakshasas are reviled in India. Their position as tax collectors is an attempts by the crown to integrate them in a more progressive and mundane manner." Rue said, "Oh, how logical. Because we all know ordaining someone as a tax collector is the surest way to get them accepted by society.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1983–2021).