ordain 的 2 个定义
- to invest with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions.
- 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.
- to destine or predestine: Fate had ordained the meeting.
- to order or command: Thus do the gods ordain.
- to select for or appoint to an office.
- to invest someone with sacerdotal functions.
ordain 近义词
establish, install
更多ordain例句
- According to its ideology, the revolution was a means for Shia clergy to prepare for the long-awaited return of the Twelfth divinely ordained Shia Imam and descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
- My belief is that come September, we will see that the belief that inflation was ordained is completely incorrect, because debt generated by fiscal policy is inherently disinflationary or deflationary.
- That whole journey was about 10 years of going away and training to become a monk and then train as a novice monk and eventually becoming a fully ordained monk.
- To Schlafly and her allies then, the military reflected a God-ordained, natural balance, and the ERA threatened to upend it.
- The Mandarin word yuánfèn, 缘分, refers to a relationship ordained by fate or destiny.
- And no religious denomination should be forced to ordain gays or women as priests, right?
- The letter also ordered her to “take down www.ordainwomen.org and disassociat[e] yourself from Ordain Women.”
- Kate Kelly, the leader of Ordain Women, was officially excommunicated.
- The Ordain Women website posted some of Harrison's email to Kelly informing her of her excommunication.
- Among other things, Weiss had the beautiful chutzpah to ordain Orthodox women.
- They say they ordain and establish it; we do not speak of ordaining leagues and compacts.
- It is very proper to say, too, I suppose, that it is an imposition when the bishops ordain the ministers?
- The bishops will ordain no persons whose names have not been submitted to the Government and approved by it.
- "The deities ordain and the balance weighs; your reward will be the greater," replied Ten-teh.
- The government they aimed at was not democracy, but theocracy: "God never did ordain democracy as a fit government," said Cotton.