Definition of Ordain

to deliver a decree or confirm a person into a religious ministry

Examples of Ordain in a sentence

If the church decides to ordain the convicted rapist as a deacon, many people will leave the congregation.  🔊

John knows the ministry will never ordain him as a priest because of his checkered past.  🔊

What made the fashion gods ordain floral prints as the must-have style of the year?  🔊

For the first time, our conservative church elders will ordain a woman as a minister.  🔊

The pope will ordain twenty priests in a special ceremony at the Vatican.  🔊

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