Definitions of ordain

1. To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.

2. To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.

3. To set apart for an office; to appoint.

4. To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.

5. To appoint or set apart for some special work; as, to ordain a minister or priest; decree; establish; as, fate ordains our destiny.

6. To put in order: to appoint: to regulate: to set in an office: to invest with ministerial functions.

7. To appoint; establish; decree; invest with sacerdotal functions.

8. To order; decree.

9. issue an order

10. invest with ministerial or priestly authority; " The minister was ordained only last month"

11. authorize as a rabbi; " Our rabbi was ordained in Spain"

12. To appoint; to decree; to institute. See Order.

13. To appoint; to decree; to establish; to institute; to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions.

14. Ordainer.