1.
[syn: appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed]
2. invested with ministerial or priestly functions;
- Example: "an ordained priest"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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The stake that shall be ordained on either side.
--Chaucer.
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2. To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law;
to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
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Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month. --1
Kings xii. 32.
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And doth the power that man adores ordain
Their doom ? --Byron.
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3. To set apart for an office; to appoint.
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Being ordained his special governor. --Shak.
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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.
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Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ordained
adj 1: fixed or established especially by order or command; "at
the time appointed (or the appointed time") [syn:
appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed]
2: invested with ministerial or priestly functions; "an ordained
priest"