ordain

verbestablish, install

Synonyms for ordain

verb establish, install

Antonyms for ordain

Word Origin & History

late 13c., "to appoint or admit to the ministry of the Church," from stem of Old French ordener "place in order, arrange, prepare; consecrate, designate" (Modern French ordonner) and directly from Latin ordinare "put in order, arrange, dispose, appoint," from ordo (genitive ordinis) "order" (see order (n.)). The notion is "to confer holy orders upon." Meaning "to decree, enact" is from c.1300; sense of "to set (something) that will continue in a certain order" is from early 14c. Related: Ordained; ordaining.

Example Sentences for ordain

And tell me,” added Alcibiades, “do they ordain to do what is good, or what is ill?

She no longer had any question for that which he chose to ordain.

You are their judges—pronounce, then, their fate; do you ordain them to live?

My heart submitted to whatever it should please God to ordain.

They were forbidden to ordain their own priests or practise their own peculiar customs.

It was easy to ordain a monopoly, but impossible to enforce it.

The Fates ordain there shall be no singing after that denial.

And yet both are indeed stars, and each does as Allah may ordain.'

If one could only ordain that things should be as though they had never been!

Ought I not to be content with everything Paragot should ordain?

ordain

Synonyms for ordain

Antonyms for ordain

assign

assigned

assigning

bless

blesses

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More words related to ordain

appoint

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assigning

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