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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ordain
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
church
▪ We would pray for those who are in training and especially for those who will be ordained in your church this summer.
▪ He took his search back to Harvard and was then ordained at Second Church in Boston in 1829.
▪ After the Reformation several were ordained in the Anglican Church while others became active Nonconformists.
▪ He was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1710.
priest
▪ From her vantage point in Galway Cathedral she watched him ordain a priest into the celibate life.
▪ He returned to Forli as a newly ordained priest and founded there a new monastery for his order.
▪ After he served for a year as a deacon he was ordained as a priest.
▪ On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest.
▪ Wilfred of York, and Bishop Haedda, who ordained him a priest.
▪ For a time he served as canon and treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, having been ordained a priest several years before.
priesthood
▪ I believe women ought to be ordained to the priesthood.
▪ Biscop Baducing was born into a noble family, then was ordained into the priesthood at the age of twenty-five.
woman
▪ And the Anglican Church still can't bring itself to ordain women!
▪ It was a more conservative document than its predecessors and no longer suggested that the Church discuss ordaining women as deacons.
▪ She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters.
▪ In spite of difficulties - and of the fact that eight Anglican provinces already ordain women - official discussions about unity continue.
▪ Why, one must ask, has the church not ordained women?
▪ I had asked myself, and the answer was no, not as long as that church refused to ordain women!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kahan was ordained in Brooklyn in 1938.
▪ King Henry VIII believed his role as ruler was ordained by God.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Biscop Baducing was born into a noble family, then was ordained into the priesthood at the age of twenty-five.
▪ He says that women are being conned into believing they will someday be ordained.
▪ He was ordained in 1950 for Magheralin Parish, Co Down.
▪ Originally from Magheralin near Lurgan, he was ordained in 1947 and later ministered in Newry for 26 years.
▪ The last ordained rabbi who worked here left several years ago and has not been replaced.
▪ Their first choice was John Danforth of Missouri, an ordained Protestant minister.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordain

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.
    --Chaucer.

  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.
    --1 Kings xii. 32.

    And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom ?
    --Byron.

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

    Being ordained his special governor.
    --Shak.

  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.
    --Bp. Stillingfleet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ordain

late 13c., "to appoint or admit to the ministry of the Church," from stem of Old French ordener "place in order, arrange, prepare; consecrate, designate" (Modern French ordonner) and directly from Latin ordinare "put in order, arrange, dispose, appoint," from ordo (genitive ordinis) "order" (see order (n.)). The notion is "to confer holy orders upon." Meaning "to decree, enact" is from c.1300; sense of "to set (something) that will continue in a certain order" is from early 14c. Related: Ordained; ordaining.

Wiktionary
ordain

vb. 1 to prearrange unalterably 2 to decree 3 to admit into the ministry of a religion, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk. 4 to authorize as a rabbi 5 to predestine

WordNet
ordain

  1. v. order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985" [syn: enact]

  2. appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: consecrate, ordinate, order]

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

  4. issue an order

Usage examples of "ordain".

Father Marcus was an Uraluran, converted and ordained, abrim with zeal.

Heinrich Bruder was physical force used to make Wally and Ett conform to what Heinrich would have ordained if his strength had still been in him.

There may have been elements of luck in the emergence of chloroplasts, but once these things were on the scene, the evolution of the sky became absolutely ordained.

Further, just as the exorcism is ordained to Baptism, so if anything be effected in the exorcism, it is ordained to the effect of Baptism.

For exorcism is ordained against energumens or those who are possessed.

Above me, as I lay, shone the eternal stars, and there at my feet the impish marsh-born balls of fire rolled this way and that, vapour-tossed and earth-desiring, and methought that in the two I saw a type and image of what man is, and what perchance man may one day be, if the living Force who ordained him and them should so ordain this also.

You know well what you have determined already of this dull Asse, that eateth more then he is worth, that faineth lamenesse, and that was the cause of the flying away of the Maid : my mind is that he shall be slaine to morrow, and when all the guts and entrailes of his body is taken out, let the Maide be sowne into his belly, then let us lay them upon a great stone against the broiling heate of the Sunne, so they shall both sustaine all the punishments which you have ordained : for first the Asse shall be slaine as you have determined, and she shall have her members torne and gnawn with wild beasts, when as she is bitten and rent with wormes, shee shall endure the paine of the fire, when as the broyling heat of the Sunne shall scortch and parch the belly of the Asse, shee shall abide the gallows when the Dogs and Vultures shall have the guts of her body hanging in their ravenous mouthes.

John was ordained to the priesthood, and when John de Gronde, the first Confessor of the Sisters at Deventer died, he ruled the said Sisterhood which Gerard had founded, being set up as the second Rector thereof, in which office he was a zealous minister, and he governed the Sisters in most excellent wise for many years, for God helped him.

At table she announced her resolve that as I had decided on going, and as I should only leave my house to take leave of her, she would not force me to put myself out to such an extent, and ordained that our farewells should be said that evening.

I should never have forgiven myself if Providence had not ordained that I should be the cause of her final happiness.

I had decided to start at day-break in my new carriage, but the fates had ordained it otherwise.

He transferred to him a life-interest in a house in Venice, and two years afterwards my brother was ordained.

I answer that even as he ordained him, he ordained a few years ago, a Portuguese physician who was living in this city, who went to the city of Macan, one Licentiate Pereira.

Are we to let it pass beyond the limits of the body, and allow a certain temporary overflow of livingness to ordain as it were machines in use?

There is no God but Thee, the Ordainer, both in the beginning and in the end.