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1. Fixed or established especially by order or command
   - appointed, decreed, prescribed
    
2. Invested with ministerial or priestly functions
   "an ordained priest"

1. Order by virtue of superior authority; decree
   "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"
   - enact
    
2. Appoint to a clerical posts
   "he was ordained in the Church"
   - consecrate, ordinate, order
    
3. Invest with ministerial or priestly authority
   "The minister was ordained only last month"
    
4. Issue an order

See also: consecrate, consecrated, dedicated, ordainer, ordinance, settled

Type of: decree, enthrone, invest, vest

Encyclopedia: Ordain