The meaning of ORDAIN is to invest officially (as by the laying on of hands) with ministerial or priestly authority. How to use ordain in a sentence.

ORDAIN definition: 1. to officially make someone a priest or other religious leader, in a religious ceremony: 2. (of…. Learn more.

To ordain is to make someone a minister, priest, monk, or other member of the clergy. In the Catholic church, for example, a bishop ordains new priests.

When someone is ordained, they are made a member of the clergy in a religious ceremony. He was ordained a Catholic priest last year.

Definition of ordain verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. ordain somebody | ordain somebody (as) something to make somebody a priest, minister or rabbi. He was …

He was ordained (as) a priest. She is an ordained minister. We the people … do ordain and establish this constitution… The process was ordained by law. It's futile to try to avoid what …

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1. to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon. 3. to decree; give orders for. 4. (of God, fate, etc.) to destine or predestine. 5. Archaic. to select for or appoint to …

To invest with the functions or office of a minister, priest, or rabbi. From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ordinare (“to order" ), from ordo (“order" ). Their chief function is to ordain, …

to invest with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions. to ordain a new type of government. He ordained that the restrictions were to be lifted. Fate had ordained the meeting. Thus do the …