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ORDAINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Invested with ministerial or priestly functions
Example:
an ordained priest
Classified under:
Similar:
consecrate; consecrated; dedicated (solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fixed or established especially by order or command
Example:
at the time appointed (or the appointed time)
Synonyms:
appointed; decreed; ordained; prescribed
Classified under:
Similar:
settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ordain
Context examples:
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Edward have got some business at Oxford, he says; so he must go there for a time; and after THAT, as soon as he can light upon a Bishop, he will be ordained.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There is now a spirit of improvement abroad; but among those who were ordained twenty, thirty, forty years ago, the larger number, to judge by their performance, must have thought reading was reading, and preaching was preaching.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
