'ordain' definitions:
Definition of 'ordain'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: ordain, enact]
verb
Appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order]
verb
Invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"
verb
Issue an order
Synonyms of 'ordain'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allocate,
- allot,
- appoint,
- appropriate to,
- assign,
- assign to,
- authorize,
- bid,
- call on,
- call the signals,
- call upon,
- canonize,
- carry on,
- charge,
- command,
- commission,
- consecrate,
- constitute,
- declare,
- declare lawful,
- decree,
- designate,
- destinate,
- destine,
- detail,
- devote,
- dictate,
- direct,
- doom,
- earmark,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- enjoin,
- enlist,
- enroll,
- establish,
- fate,
- filibuster,
- foredoom,
- formulate,
- frock,
- get the floor,
- give an order,
- give the word,
- have the floor,
- impose,
- inaugurate,
- induct,
- initiate,
- install,
- instate,
- instruct,
- invest,
- issue a command,
- issue a writ,
- keep,
- kill,
- lay down,
- legalize,
- legislate,
- legitimate,
- legitimatize,
- legitimize,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- lot,
- make a regulation,
- make assignments,
- make legal,
- manage,
- mandate,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out for,
- name,
- nominate,
- operate,
- order,
- order about,
- ordinate,
- pass,
- pigeonhole,
- pocket,
- portion off,
- prescribe,
- proclaim,
- promulgate,
- pronounce,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- regulate,
- reserve,
- restrict,
- restrict to,
- roll logs,
- rule,
- run,
- saint,
- sanction,
- say the word,
- schedule,
- select,
- set,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set off,
- sign on,
- sign up,
- tab,
- table,
- tag,
- take the floor,
- validate,
- veto,
- yield the floor