Ordain
[ɔː'deɪn] or [ɔr'den]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Set, appoint, decree, institute, prescribe, arrange, direct, regulate, dictate,establish
ANT:Subvert, revoke, cancel, annul, disestablish, countermand
Editor: Rudolf
Definition
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.
Typist: Mag
Examples
- Might not that woman, by her labour, have made the reparation ordained by God in paying fourfold? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the Analytical has pre-ordained that pain and ridicule shall befall him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If Fate had ordained that she should be a Duchess, she would even have done that duty too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I have been ordained, cried the old rascal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was ordained a priest in 1538, and a year later his long-dreamt-of order was founded under the military title of the Company of Jesus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- God, who does the work, ordains the instrument. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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