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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