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ordain

English

  1. 🔊 issue an order
  2. 🔊 appoint to a clerical posts
    “he was ordained in the Church”
  3. 🔊 invest with ministerial or priestly authority
    “The minister was ordained only last month”
  4. 🔊 order by virtue of superior authority
    “The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ordenar to ordain

Similar words

consecrate ordinate order enact allocate allot appoint appropriate to assign assign to authorize bid call on call the signals call upon canonize carry on charge command commission consecrate constitute declare declare lawful