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or·dain
(ôr-dān′)tr.v.or·dained,or·dain·ing,or·dains
1.
a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on:ordain a priest.
b. To authorize as a rabbi.
2. To order or decree by virtue of superior authority:The management ordained that business attire should be worn in the office at all times.
3. To prearrange unalterably; predestine:events that were ordained by fate.
[Middle Englishordeinen, from Old Frenchordener, ordein-, from Latinōrdināre,to organize, appoint to office, fromōrdō, ōrdin-,order; seear- inIndo-European roots.]
or·dain′er n.
or·dain′ment n.
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ordain
(ɔːˈdeɪn)vb (tr)
1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) to consecrate (someone) as a priest; confer holy orders upon
2. (may take a clause as object) to decree, appoint, or predestine irrevocably
3. (may take a clause as object) to order, establish, or enact with authority
4.obsolete to select for an office
[C13: from Anglo-Normanordeiner, from Late Latinordināre, from Latinordo order]
orˈdainern
orˈdainmentn
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or•dain
(ɔrˈdeɪn)v.t.
1. to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
2. to enact or establish by law, edict, etc.
3. to decree; give orders for.
4. (of God, fate, etc.) to destine or predestine.
5.Archaic. to select for or appoint to an office.
v.i. 6. to order or command.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Old Frenchordener < Latinordināre to order, arrange, appoint. Seeordination]
or•dain′a•ble,adj.
or•dain′er,n.
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ordain
Past participle:ordained
Gerund:ordaining
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ordain |
ordain |
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I ordain |
you ordain |
he/she/it ordains |
we ordain |
you ordain |
they ordain |
Preterite |
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I ordained |
you ordained |
he/she/it ordained |
we ordained |
you ordained |
they ordained |
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I am ordaining |
you are ordaining |
he/she/it is ordaining |
we are ordaining |
you are ordaining |
they are ordaining |
Present Perfect |
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I have ordained |
you have ordained |
he/she/it has ordained |
we have ordained |
you have ordained |
they have ordained |
Past Continuous |
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I was ordaining |
you were ordaining |
he/she/it was ordaining |
we were ordaining |
you were ordaining |
they were ordaining |
Past Perfect |
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I had ordained |
you had ordained |
he/she/it had ordained |
we had ordained |
you had ordained |
they had ordained |
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I will ordain |
you will ordain |
he/she/it will ordain |
we will ordain |
you will ordain |
they will ordain |
Future Perfect |
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I will have ordained |
you will have ordained |
he/she/it will have ordained |
we will have ordained |
you will have ordained |
they will have ordained |
Future Continuous |
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I will be ordaining |
you will be ordaining |
he/she/it will be ordaining |
we will be ordaining |
you will be ordaining |
they will be ordaining |
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I have been ordaining |
you have been ordaining |
he/she/it has been ordaining |
we have been ordaining |
you have been ordaining |
they have been ordaining |
Future Perfect Continuous |
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I will have been ordaining |
you will have been ordaining |
he/she/it will have been ordaining |
we will have been ordaining |
you will have been ordaining |
they will have been ordaining |
Past Perfect Continuous |
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I had been ordaining |
you had been ordaining |
he/she/it had been ordaining |
we had been ordaining |
you had been ordaining |
they had been ordaining |
Conditional |
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I would ordain |
you would ordain |
he/she/it would ordain |
we would ordain |
you would ordain |
they would ordain |
Past Conditional |
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I would have ordained |
you would have ordained |
he/she/it would have ordained |
we would have ordained |
you would have ordained |
they would have ordained |
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Verb | 1. | ordain - order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985" decree - issue a decree; "The King only can decree" reenact - enact again; "Congress reenacted the law" |
2. | ordain - appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" | |
3. | ordain - invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month" | |
4. | ordain - issue an order predestine - decree or determine beforehand will - decree or ordain; "God wills our existence" destine,doom,fate,designate - decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" decree - issue a decree; "The King only can decree" |
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ordain
verb
1.appoint,call,name,commission,select,elect,invest,install,nominate,anoint,consecrate,frockHer brother was ordained as a priest in 1982.
2.(Formal)order,will,rule,demand,require,direct,establish,command,dictate,prescribe,pronounce,lay down,decree,instruct,enact,legislate,enjoinHe ordained that women should be veiled in public.
3.predestine,fate,intend,mark out,predetermine,foreordain,destine,preordainHis future seemed ordained right from the start.
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ordain
verbTo set forth expressly and authoritatively:
Idioms:call the shots,lay it on the line.
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Translations
يَرْسُم الشَّخْصَ كاهِنا
ordinere
vígja
ordinēt, iesvētīt
papaz yapmak
ordain
[ɔːˈdeɪn]A.VT
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
ordain
[ɔːrˈdeɪn]vtCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
ordain
vt
sb →ordinieren; (Eccl)a priest →weihen;to beordained priest/to the ministry →ordiniertwerden; (Catholic also) →zumPriestergeweihtwerden
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
ordain
(oːˈdein) verb to make (someone) a priest, ministeretc, usually by a church ceremony.He was ordained a priest. orden, inseën, bevestig يَرْسُم الشَّخْصَ كاهِنا ръкополагам ordenar vysvětlitordinieren ordinereχειροτονώordenar ordineerima منصوب کردن vihkiäordonner לְהַסמִיך לִכמוּרָה अभिषेक करना zarediti felszentel menahbiskan vígjaordinare 聖職を授ける …에게 성직을 수여하다 įšventinti ordinēt, iesvētīt (par mācītāju) mentahbiskanwijdenordinere,prestevie wyświęcać منصوب كولordenar a hirotonisi посвящать в духовный сан vysvätiť posvetiti zarediti se prästviga, ordinera บวชพระ papaz yapmak 任命…為牧師或神父,授以…聖職 висвячувати; визначати مقرر کرنا phong chức (tôn giáo) 任命某人为牧师,授予某人圣职
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The plan of the convention, in the first place, authorizes the national legislature "to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court."[2] It declares, in the next place, that "the JUDICIAL POWER of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress shallordain and establish"; and it then proceeds to enumerate the cases to which this judicial power shall extend.
Eteocles He hath consigned to earth (as fame reports) With obsequies that use and wontordain, So gracing him among the dead below.
But the bishop would notordain him--why is not known, but it was said that he was offended with Goldsmith for coming to beordained dressed in scarlet breeches.
Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request,ordained that he be sold to a tanner.
little did I then think I wasordained so soon to quit that humble Cottage for the Deceitfull Pleasures of the World.
She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy, or, we may rather say, the world's heavy hand had soordained her, when neither the world nor she looked forward to this result.
The masters, graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, wereordained and unmarried; if by chance they wished to marry they could only do so by accepting one of the smaller livings at the disposal of the Chapter; but for many years none of them had cared to leave the refined society of Tercanbury, which owing to the cavalry depot had a martial as well as an ecclesiastical tone, for the monotony of life in a country rectory; and they were now all men of middle age.
Such dispositions, are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber, to make great politics of; like to knee timber, that is good for ships, that areordained to be tossed; but not for building houses, that shall stand firm.
"Forasmuch as it isordained of God that all flesh hath spirit and thereby taketh on spiritual powers, so, also, the spirit hath powers of the flesh, even when it is gone out of the flesh and liveth as a thing apart, as many a violence performed by wraith and lemure sheweth.
But now you have honoured me not even a little, though youordained me to have a long span of life, and to live through seven generations of mortal kind.'
And so by reason of the smallest part or class, and of the knowledge which resides in this presiding and ruling part of itself, the whole State, being thus constituted according to nature, will be wise; and this, which has the only knowledge worthy to be called wisdom, has beenordained by nature to be of all classes the least.
After this they inflicted various kinds of tortures on him, which he endured with incredible resolution, and without uttering the least complaint, praising the mercy of God who hadordained him to suffer in such a cause.
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