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ordain   (TTS Sound)

The verb ordain has 4 senses

• ordain, enact -- (order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985")


• ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order -- (appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church")


• ordain -- (invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month")


• ordain -- (issue an order)