- to invest with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions.
- to enact or establish by law, edict, etc.: to ordain a new type of government.
- to decree; give orders for: He ordained that the restrictions were to be lifted.
- (of God, fate, etc.) to destine or predestine: Fate had ordained the meeting.
- to order or command: Thus do the gods ordain.
- to select for or appoint to an office.
- to invest someone with sacerdotal functions.
- to consecrate (someone) as a priest; confer holy orders upon
- to decree, appoint, or predestine irrevocably
- to order, establish, or enact with authority
- to select for an office
