ordain
verb (used with object)
to invest with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions.
will ordain
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future tenseof ordain.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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It is thought they will ordain as novices at Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, one of the most sacred temples in northern Thailand.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2018
Three years ago, he started a night-school seminary to produce worker-priests, and in September will ordain the first class of men engaged in ordinary trades who will thereafter also double as clergy.
From Time Magazine Archive
So doth it me, said Balan, but ye must take the adventure that God will ordain you.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
To-morrow I will ordain that one of the youths who brought you hither shall conduct you to a certain path that leads through the forest that lies beyond this valley.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle
Some fitting punishments I will ordain, But speak not you of Philocles again: 'Tis bold to search, and dangerous to find, Too much of heaven's, or of a prince's mind.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
