| 单词 | ordain |
| 释义 | ordain (once / 274 pages) v To ordain is to make someone a minister, priest, monk, or other member of the clergy. In the Catholic church, for example, a bishop ordains new priests. When you say that people have been ordained, you usually mean that they've been invested with special religion-related powers. In many Buddhist traditions, senior monks ordain new monks and, increasingly, female monks (or nuns) as well. Occasionally, this chiefly religious verb is used to mean "officially declare" or "decree" in a secular matter, as when a court ordains desegregation. WORD FAMILYordain: foreordain, ordained, ordainer, ordaining, ordains, ordinance, ordination, preordain+/foreordain: foreordained, foreordaining, foreordains, foreordination/ordained: ordainedly/ordainer: ordainers/ordinance: ordinances/ordination: ordinations/preordain: preordained, preordaining, preordains, preordination USAGE EXAMPLES“Four years ago, they ordained me here and it’ll be four years in January that dad and I switched positions,” said Tim. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Along the way he became an ordained Buddhist priest and meditation teacher. BBC(Dec 27, 2016) Franklin is a seasoned scholar and an ordained minister, the former president of Morehouse College and the author of multiple books. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1v invest with ministerial or priestly authority The minister was ordained only last month Hyper enthrone, invest, vest provide with power and authority 2v appoint to a clerical posts he was ordained in the Church Syn|Hyper consecrate, order, ordinate enthrone, invest, vest provide with power and authority 3v order by virtue of superior authority; decree The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews Syn|Hypo|Hyper enact reenact enact again legislate, passmake laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation decree issue a decree 4v issue an order Hypo|Hyper predestine decree or determine beforehand willdecree or ordain designate, destine, doom, fatedecree or designate beforehand decree issue a decree |
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