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:
Any decisions to which they point have already been ordained by the criteria in that overarching r ule.
Nor were they, unlike many ordained public schoolmasters, accorded the prestige attributed to members of the clergy.
Women who conformed to the place men ordained for them were repaid with high dignity, and protection of this dignity.
Spiritual coadjutors and professed were ordained priests and received advanced training in theology, though the latter studied longer than the former.
Relinquishing variation to natural forces was for them tantamount to claiming that variation was arbitrary, with no ordained cause or foreseeable end.
However, for purposes of merit-making, any traditionally ordained monk will suffice; having access to a virtuous monk is just a bonus in the merit-making investment.
This had the effect of elevating these aspirations from merely political claims to divinely ordained rights.
In both cases the confessors needed a bishop neither for their own ordination nor, if ordained, to give absolution.
