Ordain

Word ORDAIN
Character 6
Hyphenation or dain
Pronunciations /ɔːˈdeɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Ordain"

What do we mean by ordain?

To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. transitive verb

To authorize as a rabbi. transitive verb

To order or decree by virtue of superior authority. transitive verb

To prearrange unalterably; predestine. transitive verb

To set or place in proper order; arrange; prepare; make ready; hence, to construct or constitute with a view to a certain end.

To set up; establish; institute; appoint: order.

To dispose or regulate according to will or purpose; prescribe; give orders or directions for; command; enact; decree: used especially of the decrees of Providence or of fate; hence, to destine.

To set apart for an office; select; appoint.

To destine, set apart, etc., to a certain spiritual condition, or to the fulfilment of a certain providential purpose: especially in Biblical usage.

Eccles., to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon; appoint to or formally introduce into the ministerial office: used especially of admission to the priesthood, as distinguished from making a deacon and consecrating a bishop. See ordination, 2.

Synonyms To destine, enact, order, prescribe, enjoin. In regard to the making of human laws or the acts of Providence, ordain is the most weighty and solemn word in use: as, the Mayor and Common Council do ordain; “the powers that be are ordained of God,”

To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. transitive verb

To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute. transitive verb

To set apart for an office; to appoint. transitive verb

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. transitive verb

To prearrange unalterably verb

To decree verb

To admit into the ministry of the Christian church verb

To authorize as a rabbi verb

To prearrange unalterably.

To decree.

To admit into the ministry of a religion, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.

To predestine.

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The word "ordain" in example sentences

In reference to the word ordain, we shall speak under the sixth proposition. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)

The word "ordain" -- then and now -- means "to order by virtue of superior authority," meaning "We the people" are the superior authority. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To deny that the elders have the right to ordain is to run directly against the expressed declaration of the Bible. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The best known inside the church was the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a highly traditional French cleric who took his differences with Rome into open schism and was excommunicated, along with the four men he dared to "ordain" as bishops, in the year of our lord 1970. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nowadays, that is more true than ever, in the Catholic Church and particularly in those ecclesial communities that "ordain" women to the ministry—so much so that, if we did have women's ordination in the two communions that can plausibly claim historical and confessional continuity with the Church of the Apostles, I suspect the demographics would not take terribly long to yield a "priesthood" composed disproportionately of middle-aged and elderly women. ❋ Mike L (2006)

We must never forget that it is "We the people ..." who have the power, the genius and the vision to "ordain" a better world for all humanity and achieve what was once thought to be beyond humanity's grasp: "a world that works for everyone." ❋ Unknown (2006)

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[240: 1] The word [Greek: katastêsês], here translated "ordain," should rather be rendered _constitute_, or _establish_. ❋ Unknown (1854)

"The diocese prays that all those involved in this attempt to 'ordain' ` Roman Catholic Womenpriests will be reconciled with the church, and that the harm and division caused will be healed," the Diocese of Venice, Fla., said in a statement. ❋ Sotto Voce (2010)

This is a problem because, apparently, the most moral human would never "ordain," say, the holocaust. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even if a validly-ordained Catholic bishop imposed hands on a woman to "ordain" her a bishop, nothing would occur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the reaction suggests that many readers didn't read the story the same way I did, especially once they had seen the problematic headline, and so I decided to rethink the use of a few words - especially "ordain" and "ordination" - in the story about the actual event. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You may "ordain" female STAFF members, and appoint some number of lay ladies to the diaconate and leadership positions, but WHY AREN'T YOU CALLING SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF WOMEN TO BE YOUR PASTOR? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I agree with that statement, but my question is: Who did Christ "ordain"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

You are correct in that Christ did not "ordain" anyone, if by ordination you mean a ceremony in which men are specifically called to the priesthood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The general meaning of the word 'ordain' is to 'appoint' (Webster, ❋ Temple Study (2009)

The first paragraph of the Constitution of the United States says “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

One in the preamble: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

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