ordain

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or·dain /ɔːˈdeɪn $ ɔːr-/ verb [transitiveT]

1 RRto officially make someone a priest or religious leader 正式任命〔某人〕为牧师，授予〔某人〕圣职 → ordination

Desmond Tutu was ordained in 1960.

德斯蒙德•图图于1960年被任命为牧师。

ordain somebody (as) something

The church voted to allow women to be ordained as priests.

教会投票同意授予妇女圣职。

2 formalTELL/ORDER somebody TO DO something to order that something should happen 命令，规定；判定

ordain that

The King ordained that deer should not be hunted without a royal licence.

国王下令，没有王室颁发的许可证不许猎鹿。

Examples from the Corpus

ordain• He says that women are being conned into believing they will someday be ordained.• King Henry VIII believed his role as ruler was ordained by God.• Originally from Magheralin near Lurgan, he was ordained in 1947 and later ministered in Newry for 26 years.• He was ordained in 1950 for Magheralin Parish, Co Down.• Kahan was ordained in Brooklyn in 1938.• Biscop Baducing was born into a noble family, then was ordained into the priesthood at the age of twenty-five.• Their first choice was John Danforth of Missouri, an ordained Protestant minister.• The last ordained rabbi who worked here left several years ago and has not been replaced.

ordain that• An Act of Parliament abolished the very surname and ordained that the property outside Perth should henceforth be called Huntingtower.• It was as if fate had ordained that they would marry.

Origin ordain

(1200-1300) Old French ordener, from Latin ordinare “to put in order”, from ordo; → ORDER1

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