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ordain
[ awr-deyn ]
verb (used with object)
- to invest with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions.
- to enact or establish by law, edict, etc.:
to ordain a new type of government.
- to decree; give orders for:
He ordained that the restrictions were to be lifted.
Synonyms: , ,
- (of God, fate, etc.) to destine or predestine:
Fate had ordained the meeting.
Synonyms:
verb (used without object)
- to order or command:
Thus do the gods ordain.
- to select for or appoint to an office.
- to invest someone with sacerdotal functions.
ordain
/ ɔːˈɪ /
verb
- to consecrate (someone) as a priest; confer holy orders upon
- may take a clause as object to decree, appoint, or predestine irrevocably
- may take a clause as object to order, establish, or enact with authority
- obsolete.to select for an office
Derived Forms
- ǰˈ岹ԳԳ, noun
- ǰˈ岹Ա, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ǰ·岹·· adjective
- ǰ·岹· noun
- ǰ·岹·Գ noun
- ·ǰ·岹 verb (used with object)
- self-ǰ·岹· noun
- ··ǰ·岹 verb (used without object)
- un·ǰ·岹·· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ordain1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ordain1
Example Sentences
He retired from boxing aged 28 and became an ordained minister.
After a second professional loss, Foreman retired in 1977 and became an ordained minister at the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Texas, which he founded and built.
In 2008, it voted to ordain women as bishops, and many recent meetings have included discussion of same-sex marriages.
The world, as even an American teenager knows, has moved beyond that limited view of gender, and nothing will change that — not even an order from a man who believes his presidency is divinely ordained.
It is designed to make it clear that the new king is the legitimate monarch, ordained by God.
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