Synonym: authorize, bid, command, decide, decree, dictate, direct, instruct, order, rule, sanction. Similar words: ordained, foreordained, mordant, dainty, affordable, disdain, discordant, accordance. Meaning: [ɔr'deɪn /ɔː'd-] 
v. 1. order by virtue of superior authority; decree 2. appoint to a clerical posts 3. invest with ministerial or priestly authority 4. issue an order.
v. 1. order by virtue of superior authority; decree 2. appoint to a clerical posts 3. invest with ministerial or priestly authority 4. issue an order. 
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1 He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops.
2 The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.
3 Did the Lord ordain her maternal exile, or had Augustine bartered her pain for his purity?
4 And so ordain I in all churches.
5 Does Joel 2:28 permit us ordain women preachers?
6 She tried to get ordained but, because she was a female, nobody would ordain her.
7 The central demand of the organization appears to be for President Obama to "ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington."
8 This comes directly from the ordain of the legislation, and so does the civil litigation.
9 Please ordain me a Bhikkhu so that I can develop the Noble Eightfold Path.
10 The church's ruling body voted to ordain women as priests.
11 To appoint , decree , or ordain in advance foreordain .
12 From her vantage point in Galway Cathedral she watched him ordain a priest into the celibate life.
13 She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters.
14 And the Anglican Church still can't bring itself to ordain women!
15 I had asked myself, and the answer was no, not as long as that church refused to ordain women!
16 Not long ago, the Church of England voted to ordain women priests.
17 In spite of difficulties - and of the fact that eight Anglican provinces already ordain women - official discussions about unity continue.
18 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
19 Exempting them from cuts—as polls indicate many Americans prefer—would ordain huge deficits, steep tax increases, or draconian reductions in other programs.
20 Another Catholic source sympathetic to Fr Huang said if the latter is "ambitious to exercise his episcopal ministry, he would ordain the new priests by himself. But he didn't do so.
21 The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. In this way you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
22 And I nourished that desire until the age of 16, when I had the permission of my parents to go and ordain as a monk.
23 Thou, constrained by no limits, in accordance with thine own free will, in whose hand We have placed thee, shalt ordain for thyself the limits of thy nature.
24 After you put these clothes on your brother Aaron and his sons,[www.Sentencedict.com] anoint and ordain them. Consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.
25 But China has ignored these appeals. Last month, it announced that it would try to ordain at least 40 bishops "without delay".
26 Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
27 Nothing that is not forbidden by Law may be hindered, and no one may be compelled to do what the Law does not ordain.
28 These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
29 The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
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