🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
BNC: 11835 COCA: 13110

ordain

verb

or·​dain ȯr-ˈdān How to pronounce ordain (audio)
ordained; ordaining; ordains

transitive verb

1
: to invest (see invest entry 2 sense 1) officially (as by the laying on of hands) with ministerial or priestly authority
was ordained as a priest
2
a
: to establish or order by appointment, decree, or law : enact
we the people … do ordain and establish this Constitution U.S. Constitution
b
: destine, foreordain
It is futile to try to avoid what destiny has ordained.

intransitive verb

: to issue an order
so the gods have ordained
ordainer noun
ordainment
ȯr-ˈdān-mənt How to pronounce ordain (audio)
noun

Synonyms

Example Sentences

She is an ordained minister. The process was ordained by law.
Recent Examples on the Web Although Jonas had other prominent supporters, including Rabbi Leo Baeck, who later led a Nazi-era organization for German Jews, none would ordain her. New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022 Some 35 years later, Kate Kelly, a Washington, D.C., activist also was excommunicated — at the same Virginia meetinghouse as Johnson — for her advocacy in pushing to ordain women to the faith’s all-male priesthood. The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022 The church did not routinely ordain Black men into the priesthood until 1978. Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022 The leaders of the Anglican Episcopal Church meet in London to discuss the Episcopal Church USA’s vote to ordain an openly homosexual bishop. CNN, 19 Aug. 2021 Recent Timeline August 5, 2003 - The Episcopal Church USA, at its meeting for its General Convention in Minneapolis, votes to ordain Gene Robinson, who is openly gay, as bishop of New Hampshire. CNN, 19 Aug. 2021 Last month, the Vatican released a new penal code that specified automatic excommunication for any attempt to ordain a woman. Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 16 July 2021 Shaloh House is planning to ordain eight additional rabbis this year, one for each stab wound Noginski suffered. BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021 Council members, during a June 21 Council finance committee hearing, raised concerns that such a costly upfront investment might pre-ordain the old juvenile facility as the final choice for the diversion center. Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 28 June 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English ordeinen, from Anglo-French ordener, ordeiner, from Late Latin ordinare, from Latin, to put in order, appoint, from ordin-, ordo order

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of ordain was in the 14th century

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime