Ordain

//ɔɹˈdeɪn//

Synonyms for "ordain" (131 found)

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Translations

31 translations across 21 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • предписвам verb (to prearrange unalterably)
  • ръкополагам verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Catalan

1 entries
  • ordenar verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 按立 verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Danish

1 entries
  • ordinere verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Dutch

1 entries
  • vaststellen verb (to prearrange unalterably)

German

2 entries
  • festlegen verb (to prearrange unalterably)
  • weihen verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Hawaiian

1 entries
  • poni verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • הִסְמִיךְ verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • tahbis verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Irish

1 entries
  • oirnigh verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Korean

1 entries
  • 임명하다 verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Latin

1 entries
  • scisco verb (to prearrange unalterably)

Māori

3 entries
  • whakaminita verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • whakapiriti verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • whakawahi verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • ordinere verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • ordinere verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Old English

1 entries
  • sċrīfan verb (to prearrange unalterably)

Russian

2 entries
  • рукополагать verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • рукоположить verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Spanish

3 entries
  • ordenar verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • ordinar verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • tonsurar verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Swedish

3 entries
  • ordinera verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • prästviga verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • viga verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • ви́святити verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)
  • висвя́чувати verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Welsh

1 entries
  • ordeinio verb (admit into the ministry of a religion)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Source: tatoeba (433686)

"Now, to ease thy woes, / since sorrow for his sake hath dimmed thine eyes, / more will I tell, and hidden fates disclose. / He in Italia long shall battle with his foes, / and crush fierce tribes, and milder ways ordain, / and cities build and wield the Latin sway, / till the third summer shall have seen him reign, / and three long winter-seasons passed away / since fierce Rutulia did his arms obey."

Source: tatoeba (6785806)

"To thee, yea, thee, fierce miscreant", he cried, / may Heaven, if Heaven with righteous eyes behold / so foul an outrage and a deed so bold, / ne'er fail a fitting guerdon to ordain, / nor worthy quittance for thy crime withhold, / whose hand hath made me see my darling slain, / and dared with filial blood a father's eyes profane."

Source: tatoeba (6846493)

"Naught happens here but as the Gods ordain. / It may not be, nor doth the Lord divine / of high Olympus nor the Fates design / that thou should'st take Creusa."

Source: tatoeba (6891644)

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