Ordain

[ɔː'deɪn] or [ɔr'den]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) issue an order.

(verb.) appoint to a clerical posts; 'he was ordained in the Church'.

(verb.) invest with ministerial or priestly authority; 'The minister was ordained only last month'.

(verb.) order by virtue of superior authority; decree; 'The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews'; 'the legislature enacted this law in 1985'.

欧内斯特整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.

(v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.

(v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.

(v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.

格罗夫斯整理

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Appoint, call, elect, consecrate, destine, set apart.[2]. Establish, institute, regulate, set in order, arrange.[3]. Decree, enact, order, prescribe, enjoin.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Set, appoint, decree, institute, prescribe, arrange, direct, regulate, dictate,establish

ANT:Subvert, revoke, cancel, annul, disestablish, countermand

整理:鲁道夫

解釋/意思:

v.t. to put in order: to appoint: to dispose or regulate: to set apart for an office: to invest with ministerial functions.—adj. Ordain′able.—ns. Ordain′er; Ordain′ment.—adj. Or′dinal showing order or succession.—n. a number noting order or place among others: a body of regulations a book containing forms and rules for ordination.—n. Or′dinance that which is ordained by authority: a law: a religious practice or right established by authority.—adj. Or′dinant (Shak.) ordaining decreeing.—n. one who ordains as a bishop—opp. to Or′dinand or one who is to be ordained.—n. Ordinā′tion the act of ordaining: admission to the Christian ministry by the laying on of hands of a bishop or a presbytery: established order.

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