ordinator
- noun
- /ɔːrˈdɪneɪtər/
- Formal
:
ordenador
- The bishop served as the ordinator, guiding the congregation through the important step of ordination.
Examples
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Some versions had a designated ordinator who was already a member of the local clergy and who conducted this portion of the service.
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Even the ordinator was no more than the liturgist or perhaps the master of ceremonies who presided over what other pastors, elders, entire congregations, and the ordinands were doing, with or without the laying on of hands.
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One had the ordinator begin the ceremony by specifically identifying the clergy as "we bishops, that is, called pastors and preachers."
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The printer apparently had forgotten to include this attendant circumstance for proceeding with the ordination, so someone, presumably an unknown ordinator, wrote it into the margin by hand.
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After the ordinand said, "I promise" to the injunctions of these passages, "Then with the imposition of hands on the heads of those very ordinands, the ordinator says, 'Our Father,' etc." commonly with additional petitions against the Pope and "the Mohammedans" but without the traditional ending.
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During the ceremony, the ordinator performed the sacred rites to bless the newly ordained priests.
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As the ordinator, she carefully followed the rituals to ensure the ceremony adhered to church traditions.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who leads religious ceremonies and worship in a church or temple
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6.4
A religious leader who leads services and prayers in a church
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4.7
A man who leads services and gives spiritual help in a church
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9.1
A senior church leader who has authority over other clergy
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7.9
A person who leads a religious ceremony like a wedding
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A priest or minister who leads a religious service and gives blessings
A religious leader like a bishop who officially makes someone a priest or minister in a ceremony
A person who leads a ceremony or acts as an official at an event
A person who leads religious services and performs ceremonies
A person who works as a priest or minister in the Christian church
A bishop who leads a serious church ceremony
A person who leads a religious or official ceremony to bless a place
Antonyms
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
ordinator = ordain (semi-transparent) = ordin + ator
The agentive relation to 'ordain' is structurally clear, but the religious-specific meaning ('one who performs ordination') is specialized vocabulary.
Etymology
The word ordinator comes from the Latin ordinare and ordo, meaning 'order', and it shares the same root as ordain and ordination. So, an ordinator can be a priest who gives 'holy orders', which explains its use for the person who performs an ordination ceremony.