ordained
adjective
having been invested with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions.
self-ordained
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a word derived from
ordained.
Example Sentences
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“So, I self-ordained myself Mr. T., so the first word out of everybody’s mouth would be ‘Mr.,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Posse Comitatus founder William Potter Gale was a self-ordained minister who called on sheriffs to supersede federal agencies and serve as quasi-vigilantes, primarily to resist school desegregation.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2023
Of late, however, the self-ordained "rock-'n'-roll animal" has spruced up considerably, put on some weight and diminished his waning-moon pallor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cinema spoof British-style keeps searching farther and wider for ideas, and audiences have only to consult the credits for proof: this film was based on a conceit of that self-ordained iconoclast, Malcolm Muggeridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Enchanted she listened to the syren's call, and ere the echo died within her ear she had devoted her talent to literature, a priestess self-ordained in Arizona's temple of the muses.
From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by George (Henry George August) Hartmann
