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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
/ 蓴藧藞诲别瑟苍 /
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
- 辞谤藞诲补颈苍尘别苍迟, noun
- 辞谤藞诲补颈苍别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 辞谤路诲补颈苍路补路产濒别 adjective
- 辞谤路诲补颈苍路别谤 noun
- 辞谤路诲补颈苍路尘别苍迟 noun
- 谤别路辞谤路诲补颈苍 verb (used with object)
- self-辞谤路诲补颈苍路别谤 noun
- 蝉耻路辫别谤路辞谤路诲补颈苍 verb (used without object)
- un路辞谤路诲补颈苍路补路产濒别 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of ordain1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of ordain1
Example Sentences
Theoretically, any baptised man can be elected as pope, but a cardinal, all of whom are serving archbishops ordained by a pontiff, is usually picked.
All men, they are appointed directly by the Pope, and are usually ordained bishops.
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.
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