Ordain (Verb)

Meaning ¹

Issue an order.

Classification

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

Examples

• The supreme leader would ordain laws to govern the newly formed territory.
• In emergency situations, the emergency responders are trained to ordain evacuation orders to save lives.
• By authority vested in us, we ordain that the proceedings will resume the following day.
• The CEO has the power to ordain major policy changes within the company.
• The board of governors can ordain new policies that affect the entire organization.

Hyponyms

• Fate
• Doom
• Designate

Related Words

• Ordinance (noun)

Meaning ²

Invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month".

Classification

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

Hypernyms

• Vest
• Enthrone

Related Words

• Ordinance (noun)
• Ordainer (noun)

Meaning ³

Appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church".

Classification

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

Synonyms

• Consecrate
• Ordinate
• Order

Hypernyms

• Vest
• Enthrone

Related Words

• Ordinance (noun)
• Ordainer (noun)

Meaning ⁴

Order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985".

Classification

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

Synonyms

• Enact

Hyponyms

• Pass