ordain
verb (used with object)
to invest with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions.
had ordained
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past perfectof ordain.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Church of Scotland has had ordained female ministers since the 1960s.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
When I saw what her genes had ordained for my body, I realized that I was destined to uphold her surgical legacy.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
Providence, they said, had ordained that the city should be built here, now.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2017
In September 1976, Bhumibol allowed Thanom to return to Thailand, even visiting him with Sirikit in Wat Bovornives—the Chakri dynasty’s personal temple—where he had ordained as a monk.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2016
He had ordained two bishops previously, Linus and Clitus, but he did not place them in his seat, as he did this holy man, whom to-day we honour.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
