0 present participle of ordain
1 to officially make someone a priest or other religious leader, in a religious ceremony:
2 (of God or someone in authority) to order something to happen:
Enframing is an ordaining of destining, as is every way of revealing.
What assessment he has made of the financial implications of ordaining female bishops.
It is not the object of any denomination, by deferring its students and by ordaining them earlier, to obtain complete exemption from national service.
The question is whether the habit of not ordaining women has been such an historic negative that it should rightly be described as a doctrine.
Her father, who had a change of heart, was among the ordaining bishops present and proudly patted her with affection after the liturgy.
This group opposed to the practice of ordaining women ministers.
He trained young men for the clergy, often ordaining them without permission.
Bassui resisted ordaining as a monk just yet, and waited for another nine years before becoming one.
