ordain

[or·dain]

To ordain is to make someone a minister, priest, monk, or other member of the clergy. In the Catholic church, for example, a bishop ordains new priests.

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

Verb
issue an order

Verb
appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"

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invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"

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order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"

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.

Ordain

Or*dain" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordained ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ordaining.] [OE. ordeinen, OF. ordener, F. ordonner, fr. L. ordinare, from ordo, ordinis, order. See Order, and cf. Ordinance.] 1. To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. "Battle well ordained." Spenser.

The stake that shall be ordained on either side.

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

Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month.

And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom ?

3. To set apart for an office; to appoint.

Being ordained his special governor.

4. (Eccl.) 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.

Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops.

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

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