0 past simple and past 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: --
The only requirement is that the monk is properly ordained, his inner state being immaterial.
Formerly, the ordained priesthood had been allimportant, while, under the new vision, each baptized person was to participate in the priesthood of the whole.
The best legislation is ordained through prophecy to elected human beings.
They were not absolutely dependent on the visits of formally ordained clerics, though the food, gifts and prayers that they brought were no doubt helpful.
Rabbinical court judges are required to be ordained orthodox rabbis (most are from the ultraorthodox stream) and, consequently, are always male.
After considering both teaching and the law, he entered the ordained ministry.
Any properly ordained monk is sufficient in allowing the laity to progress in their quest for merit.
In both cases the confessors needed a bishop neither for their own ordination nor, if ordained, to give absolution.
