ordain

Verb

Verb Forms: ordained, ordaining, ordains

• To officially make someone a minister, priest, or religious leader.
• order by virtue of superior authority; decree
  • "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"
• appoint to a clerical posts
  • "he was ordained in the Church"
• invest with ministerial or priestly authority
  • "The minister was ordained only last month"
• issue an order
• To prearrange unalterably.
• To decree.
• To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
• To predestine.

Examples

• The Scrabble dictionary seems to ordain certain words as superior, granting them higher point values.

Synonyms

consecrate, enact, order, ordinate, foresay

Related Words

coordinate, coordination, foreordination, insubordination, order, ordinal, ordinance, ordinary, ordinate, ordination, ordnance, ordo, postordination, preordination, reordination, subordinate, subordination, superordination