ordain
Confer holy orders
To ordain is to officially establish or decree something by authority: The law ordains that all citizens must register.
In religious contexts, to ordain is to confer holy orders on someone, making them a priest, minister, or rabbi: She was ordained last spring.
The adjective ordained describes what has been decreed or destined: It seemed ordained that they would meet again.
Predetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
foreordain · predetermine · inevitability · doom · fortune · karma · destined · determinism
Propose as candidate
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- assignGive as responsibility
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- selectCarefully pick from options
designate · authorize · empower · install · inaugurate · elect · choose · name
fate
Predetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
providence · foreordain · predetermine · inevitability · doom · fortune · karma · destined · determinism · fatalism
nominate
Propose as candidate
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- assignGive as responsibility
- commissionPayment for services rendered
select · designate · authorize · empower · install · inaugurate · elect · choose · name · vest
priesthood
Ordained religious office
pastor · rabbi · imam · monk · nun · seminary · vestments · altar · chalice · liturgy
command
Authoritative instruction given
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- dictateGive orders imperiously
- prescribeOfficially recommend treatment
establish · enact · proclaim · pronounce · direct · rule · determine · declare · legislate · sanction
- worship verbspray, bless, anoint, baptize, consecrate
- approvalsapproved, approve, authorizing, certification, endorsing
- establishestablish, found, institute, create, set up
- activationactivate, triggers, firing, commence, initiate
- foretellingpredict, prophesy, foretell, foresee, forecast
- officiatereferee, umpire, preside, officiant, moderate
ordaindefrock
Remove clerical status
unfrock · laicize · excommunicate · dismiss · depose
- ordained ministerSanctioned religious authority figure
- ordained ministryAuthorized religious leadership role