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ordained

[awr-deynd] / ɔrˈdeɪnd /
ADJECTIVE
ordered
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ADJECTIVE
invested into the ministry
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“It worked pretty well,” Mac Davis, one of the founders, who is also an ordained Buddhist monk, told me on a video call.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

One of the protesters who was arrested for disrupting the service at Cities Church is herself an ordained minister.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2026

He studied history and theology at Cambridge and then headed to theological college with the aim of being ordained as a clergyman before he - and the church - had second thoughts.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

He was ordained as a priest in 1994.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril; but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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