ordain in English

verb
1
make (someone) a priest or minister; confer holy orders on.
While in Golden, he was ordained an Episcopal minister and later served residents in Colorado's mining camps during his scientific excursions.
synonyms:confer holy orders onappointanointconsecrateinstallinvestinduct
2
order or decree (something) officially.
equal punishment was ordained for the two crimes

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1. * See also Ordain, Ordination; Priesthood

2. To appoint , decree , or ordain in advance foreordain .

3. 4 And so ordain I in all churches.

4. 5 Does Joel 28 permit us ordain women preachers?

5. 11 To appoint , decree , or ordain in advance foreordain .

6. Elders ordain priests and teachers by the laying on of hands.

7. And he protested, “But I’ve already asked another brother to ordain me.”

8. 2 The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.

9. 16 Not long ago, the Church of England voted to ordain women priests.

10. 10 The church's ruling body voted to ordain women as priests.

11. 1 He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops.

12. The father, through his tears, said, “I didn’t get to ordain my other boys.”

13. 24 The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.

14. 14 And the Anglican Church still can't bring itself to ordain women!

15. * See also Authority; Choose, Chose, Chosen (verb); Chosen (adjective or noun); Ordain, Ordination; Steward, Stewardship

16. 9 Please ordain me a Bhikkhu so that I can develop the Noble Eightfold Path.

17. President Packer invites a young man’s father to ordain his son an elder.

18. The absence of a specified grammatical object gives the verb "ordain" a scope of semantic infinity.

19. Synonyms for Constitutionalize include legislate, ordain, prescribe, enact laws, authorise, authorize, constitute, decree, enact and establish laws

20. 3 Did the Lord ordain her maternal exile, or had Augustine bartered her pain for his purity?

21. 8 This comes directly from the ordain of the legislation, and so does the civil litigation.

22. 6 She tried to get ordained but, because she was a female, nobody would ordain her.

23. 12 From her vantage point in Galway Cathedral she watched him ordain a priest into the celibate life.

24. 21 The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. In this way you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

25. 26 Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.

26. 15 I had asked myself, and the answer was no, not as long as that church refused to ordain women!

27. 13 She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters.

28. To preach the word Authoritatively, dispense the sacraments, ordain their officers, admonish offenders, excommunicate the obstinate and incorrigible, and absolve the penitent

29. 28 These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

30. 17 In spite of difficulties - and of the fact that eight Anglican provinces already ordain women - official discussions about unity continue.

31. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

32. 19 Exempting them from cuts—as polls indicate many Americans prefer—would ordain huge deficits, steep tax increases, or draconian reductions in other programs.

33. 22 And I nourished that desire until the age of when I had the permission of my parents to go and ordain as a monk.

34. 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.

35. Exempting them from cuts—as polls indicate many Americans prefer—would ordain huge deficits, steep tax increases, or draconian reductions in other programs.

36. 25 But China has ignored these appeals. Last month, it announced that it would try to ordain at least 40 bishops "without delay".

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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."

40. The Seventh Ecumenical Council in AD 787 recognized the right of Abbots to ordain their monks to the inferior orders below the diaconate, a power usually reserved to bishops

41. 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.

42. We therefore expressly ordain that you desist from molesting these Baptists [Anabaptists], from offering hindrance to their handicraft and daily trade, by which they can earn bread for their wives and children. . . .

43. 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.

44. 13, Bishoprics are encouraged to do the following early in the year, preferably in January: Ordain all worthy young men turning 12, 14 and 16 to the appropriate priesthood office

45. 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.

46. One belief is that it was recorded in 1363 when Edward III of England issued the proclamation: "Moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing; handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games."

47. Constitution We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

48. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

49. And we will and ordain that all proclamations, executions, indorsations of horning, inhibitions, and Apprisings and other executions whatever, within the said bounds and regality above specified, used or to be used within any burgh of this our kingdom, shall be used at the market cross of our said burgh of 'Moffat in all time coming.