英语词汇“ordain”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	ordain
释义	or·dain \ȯrˈdān, ȯ(ə)ˈ-\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English ordeinen, from Old French ordener (3d singular present ordeine), from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin ordinare to ordain (a clergyman), from Latin, to put in order, arrange, appoint, from ordin-, ordo order — more at order *transitive verb* 1. : arrange, order, regulate, manage, conduct < a boy not yet fit to ordain his life — Oliver La Farge > 2. a. (1) : to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions : introduce into the office of the Christian ministry by the laying on of hands or by other forms : set apart by the ceremony of ordination — compare consecrate (2) : to invest with regal functions by a religious ceremony < ordained king in Westminster Abbey — F.M.Stenton > b. : to establish by appointment, decree, or law : constitute, institute, enact < the plan was ordained by the governor and judges — American Guide Series: Michigan > < ordained a form of government closely resembling an absolute monarchy — E.O.Hauser > c. : to predestine or destine as part of a divine plan, by the force of circumstances, or as necessary in the nature of things : fate < truly ordained to be one of the world's great crossroads — H.F.Bain > < ordained to be hewers of wood and drawers of water — Newsweek > < the end is ordained by fate — C.H.Rickword > d. : to order by fiat or by virtue of great or supreme authority : command, decree < ordained that the best gumtrees were to be left standing — Rex Ingamells > < cannot ordain that so many tons of steel be produced when the ore and steel plants are not in existence — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > *intransitive verb* : to issue an order : decree, command < so great Jove ordains > Synonyms: see dictate
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