Unordained

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  † 1.  Not regulated or controlled. Obs.^–1

c. 1340.  Hampole, Prose Tr., 13. Þe delyte þat has noghte of vnordaynde styrrynge, and mekely has styrrynge in Criste.

  2.  Not ecclesiastically ordained.

1653.  Baxter, Chr. Concord, 84. They are bound to choose a man unordained to this work. Ibid. (a. 1691), in Calamy, Life, vii. (1702), 131. There is a Duty in such a Case of Necessity, even on Persons unordain’d.

1804.  Ann. Rev., II. 208. The distinction between ordained and unordained preachers.

1865.  S. Wilberforce, in R. G. Wilberforce, Life (1882), III. 766. Brotherhoods of unordained men not in Holy Orders.

  3.  Not appointed or decreed.

1815.  Wordsw., Ode, 63. Be it not unordained that solemn rites … Shall be performed at pregnant intervals.