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Antonyms for ordain

Grammar : Verb
Spell : awr-deyn
Phonetic Transcription : ɔrˈdeɪn

Definition of ordain

Origin :
  • late 13c., "to appoint or admit to the ministry of the Church," from stem of Old French ordener "place in order, arrange, prepare; consecrate, designate" (Modern French ordonner) and directly from Latin ordinare "put in order, arrange, dispose, appoint," from ordo (genitive ordinis) "order" (see order (n.)). The notion is "to confer holy orders upon." Meaning "to decree, enact" is from c.1300; sense of "to set (something) that will continue in a certain order" is from early 14c. Related: Ordained; ordaining.
  • verb establish, install
Example sentences :
  • And tell me,” added Alcibiades, “do they ordain to do what is good, or what is ill?
  • Extract from : « The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates » by Xenophon
  • She no longer had any question for that which he chose to ordain.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • You are their judges—pronounce, then, their fate; do you ordain them to live?
  • Extract from : « Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) » by Frances Burney
  • My heart submitted to whatever it should please God to ordain.
  • Extract from : « The Autobiography of Madame Guyon » by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
  • They were forbidden to ordain their own priests or practise their own peculiar customs.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
  • It was easy to ordain a monopoly, but impossible to enforce it.
  • Extract from : « A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I » by Francis Parkman
  • The Fates ordain there shall be no singing after that denial.
  • Extract from : « The Crown of Wild Olive » by John Ruskin
  • And yet both are indeed stars, and each does as Allah may ordain.'
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • If one could only ordain that things should be as though they had never been!
  • Extract from : « The Vicar of Bullhampton » by Anthony Trollope
  • Ought I not to be content with everything Paragot should ordain?
  • Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke

Synonyms for ordain

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