If some authority or power ordains something, they decide that it should happen or be in existence. Nehru ordained that socialism should rule His rule was ordained by heaven The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change. = decree
To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination
To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute
order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985
When someone is ordained, they are made a member of the clergy in a religious ceremony. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1982 Women have been ordained for many years in the Church of Scotland He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops
{f} empower to function in a religious office; determine law, establish order; destine, set apart for a particular purpose or function; command