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
All that thou dost ask We will ordain.
From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Sir Edwin Arnold
But God will ordain their harvests as it pleaseth Him.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser
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
