To set up, place; to appoint; to set out, array.

To show what is to be observed or done; to direct, appoint, prescribe, decree, enjoin. Const. as in II. Obsolete or absorbed in II.

To decree, ordain, appoint; to decide, determine; to adjudicate or award (a thing to a person).

To create, prepare, make, appoint.

transitive. To decree, ordain; to decide, determine; = deem, v. 4. Also intransitive.

To appoint or provide to be used or observed by a person. Obsolete.

transitive. To appoint, ordain, arrange, assign, dispose in order. Obsolete.

transitive. To appoint, constitute.

transitive. To decree; to appoint, select. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

Expressing an authoritative (or similarly formal) wish or intention: decree, ordain, give orders (that… transitive. Expressing an official (esp…

transitive. To ordain, decree; to appoint; to decide. Obsolete.

transitive. To display (kindness, mercy, courtesy or discourtesy, rudeness, etc.) to a person by one's actions or behaviour; to accord or grant…

To ordain permanently, establish, fix, institute; to appoint, settle.

To assign, appoint, order, direct. (absol. or transitive with simple object or object clause.) Obsolete.

transitive. To make a judgement about; to adjudicate; to determine, decide, settle. Cf. terminate, v. 3.

transitive. gen. To decree, determine. Obsolete.

transitive. To dispose, arrange, set in order; to prepare, make ready; to control, rule, govern; to direct (a helm or rudder); to ordain, assign…

transitive. To settle or fix beforehand; to ordain, decree; to ordain what is to be done. Obsolete.

transitive. To grant, bestow, or impose by judicial sentence, or following a similar legal or official process; to award or assign judicially; = ad…

transitive. To assign, appoint.

To fix, ordain, appoint.

transitive. Originally Scottish. To ordain, decree; to enact in a statute. Frequently with that-clause as object. Also occasionally intransitive. Now…

With the direct object only: To bid, order, ordain, appoint, prescribe. object a n. or pron.

transitive. To command (something) by decree; to order, appoint, or assign authoritatively, ordain.

To ordain, decree, appoint; to grant, bestow.

transitive. To ordain, decree; to prophesy. Usually in passive with dummy it as subject, e.g. It was written in the stars.

transitive. To decree, order, ordain.

transitive. To decide or settle (a matter); to make a ruling concerning. Now rare.

To fix, appoint beforehand. Obsolete.

To set up, appoint, ordain (an officer). Obsolete.

To appoint authoritatively, prescribe (a course of action). Obsolete.

transitive. To ordain that something shall be, or something to be. Obsolete.

transitive. To write or lay down as a rule or direction to be followed; to impose authoritatively; to ordain, decree; to assign. Frequently with to…

= constitute, v.

transitive. To ordain, appoint: = destine, v. 1.

transitive. To establish, formulate definitely (a principle, rule); to prescribe (a course of action, limits, etc.).

transitive. With noun complement. To determine (a thing, occasionally a person) to be (what is expressed by the complement); to establish or set…

transitive. To decide and announce that (something) will happen or take place; to decree, declare. Cf. sense 14.

figurative. transitive. To establish (a principle, doctrine, practice, etc.); to cause to be accepted.

transitive. Of God, fate, etc.: to decide or appoint (a person's condition, circumstances, lifespan, etc.); to assign a particular fate or lot (lot…

To prescribe or appoint definitely (a course of action, an amount, place, time, etc.); to restrict (a person) to a particular course of action or…

By-form of determine, v.

To ordain authoritatively, prescribe, establish, fix. that it shall be.

transitive. To ordain, appoint (formally or definitely). Obsolete (or merged in 3.)

transitive. = prescribe, v. 1b.

transitive. To appoint or select (a person or thing) to do or be something. Cf. allot, v. 5. Obsolete.

transitive. To appoint beforehand.

transitive. To fix, appoint, establish; to specify as something desired or decided upon (cf. name, v. 8a). Formerly also †intransitive with for.

To lay down (a principle), prescribe (a regulation, mode of procedure). Obsolete.

transitive. To assign to a particular place or time period. Chiefly Science in later use.

To dispose, ordain, order (events). Also absol. Obsolete. rare.

To decree; to pronounce or fix as a sentence or fate; to destine; to adjudge. (With simple object or object clause.)

To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the object in view; to make ready, prepare; †rarely with up. Const. for, to with n. or infinitive: otherwise di…

transitive. To state or declare authoritatively; to utter as a pronouncement or dictum. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To ordain, appoint.

transitive. To order; to ordain.

transitive. To settle or regulate by authority; to fix at a certain price or amount. Obsolete.

To settle definitely; to appoint or assign with precision; to specify or determine. Const. at, for, to.

transitive. To order, appoint, prescribe (a thing to be done or carried out).