"ordinator" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons",
          "text": "if nature and her ordinator, God, deny health, how unvaluable are their riches, how unavailable their projects!",
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          "ref": "1905 January, Ossian H. Lang, “The Educational Outlook”, in The Forum, volume 36, number 3, page 435",
          "text": "The plan which has proved most satisfactory is something like this: One teacher, the class ordinator, is made responsible for the general discipline and progress of a class.",
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          "ref": "1916, Thomas Alexander Lacey, Nature, Miracle and Sin, page 58",
          "text": "God is ordinator no less than creator; if he is naturarum bonarum creator, he is also malarum uoluntatum ordinator; if human wills make a bad use of good things , he in turn makes a good use even of evil wills.",
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          "ref": "1917 January 13, R. Andersen, “Short History of the Danish Reformation”, in The Living Church, volume 56, page 361",
          "text": "This is the only synod in America to have an ordinator, and it is here that the Lutheran resembles the Episcopalian. But the ordinator is not consecrated—that is not a Danish custom—his office resembling that of the superintendents in Germany.",
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          "text": "During the social hour, he went to the office of the assistant ordinator, a weasel-faced man wearing the dark blue Interchange uniform as if it were a privilege.",
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        "One who ordains or establishes; a director."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "coordinator"
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