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Definitions of ordain
  1. verb
    order by virtue of superior authority; decree
    "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"

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  2. verb
    appoint to a clerical posts
    "he was ordained in the Church"
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  3. verb
    invest with ministerial or priestly authority
    "The minister was ordained only last month"
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  4. verb
    issue an order
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Definition that contains ordain
  • will decree or ordain
  • reader someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
  • priesthood the body of ordained religious practitioners
  • ordinance the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
  • ordination the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
  • ordination the status of being ordained to a sacred office
  • predestination (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
  • acolyte someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
  • quakerism the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry
  • predetermination (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
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