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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ordained
adj 1: fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the
time appointed (or the appointed time") [syn: {appointed},
{decreed}, {prescribed}]
2: invested with ministerial or priestly functions; "an
ordained priest"
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