transcription, транскрипция: [ ɔ:(r)deɪn ]
( ordains, ordaining, ordained)
1.
When someone is ordained , they are made a member of the clergy in a religious ceremony.
He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1982...
Women have been ordained for many years in the Church of Scotland...
He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops...
VERB : be V-ed n , be V-ed , V n
2.
If some authority or power ordains something, they decide that it should happen or be in existence. ( FORMAL )
Nehru ordained that socialism should rule...
His rule was ordained by heaven...
The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.
= decree
VERB : V that , be V-ed , V n