
1) Admit to the clergy 2) Admit to the priesthood 3) Appoint 4) Appoint to a clerical posts 5) Certify into the priesthood 6) Confer holy orders 7) Confer holy orders on 8) Confer holy orders upon 9) Confirm a minister 10) Consecrate 11) Consecrate to office 12) Decree 13) Decree or consecrate 14) Dictate
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1) Anoint 2) Decree 3) Destine 4) Enact 5) Legislate 6) Predestine
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• (v. t.) 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. • (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint. • (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to...
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1. To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. 'Battle well ordained.' '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....
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Or·dain' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ordained ; present participle & verbal noun Ordaining .] [ Middle English ordeinen , Old French ordener , French ordonner , from Latin ordinare , from
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To ordain is to make an ordinance, to enact a law. In the Constitution of the United States, the preamble declares that the people "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." The 3rd article of the same Constitution declares, that "the judicial power shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior cour.....
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the proper terms in Catholic usage for references to the conferral of the sacrament of holy orders on a deacon, priest or bishop.
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[
v] - order by virtue of superior authority 2. [v] - authorize as a rabbi 3. [v] - invest with ministerial or priestly authority 4. [v] - appoint to a clerical posts 5. [v] - issue an order
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verb order by virtue of superior authority; decree; `The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews`; `the legislature enacted this law in 1985`
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to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon. · to enact or establish by law, edict, etc.: to ordain a new type of government. · to decree; give orders for: He ordained that the restrictions were to be lifted. · (of God, fate, etc.) to destine or predestine: Fate had ordained the meeting.
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invest with ministerial or priestly authority
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[Intelligent words] invest with ministerial or priestly authority
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