ordained
part of speech
verb past form (ordain, ordains, ordained, ordaining); adjective (ordained)
meaning for a pupil
1) Ordained means made a priest, minister or religious leader in a special ceremony. tree →
2) (formal) Ordained means ordered or decided by someone with power, like a law or a king. tree →
3) Ordained can mean decided by fate or by God. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means set up or established by God, as in "God ordained a covenant." Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says God set a covenant on the toes and on the fingers, and that He made the thirty-two paths of wisdom, which the tradition counts as the ten Sefirot and twenty-two letters. In the primary lessons: It appears in religious education and history about priests, ministers and rabbis. In old stories it shows something was meant to happen or was commanded. Phrases: «be ordained a priest», «ordained minister», «divinely ordained».
examples
- God ordained a covenant between the toes of his feet, that of circumcision; and a covenant between the fingers of his hands, that of the Tongue. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script, and Scroll. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- "Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, the Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script and Scroll." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Thou hast ordained Thy precepts, that we should observe them diligently. (Writings PSA.119.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- O LORD, Thou hast ordained them for judgment, and Thou, O Rock, hast established them for correction. (Prophets HAB.1.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- He was ordained a priest last year. tree →
- She is an ordained minister in her church. tree →
- The ordained leader blessed the children. tree →
- The king ordained that a feast be held. tree →
- In the story, it seemed ordained that they would meet. tree →
- Only ordained ministers could lead the service. tree →
- Our vicar was ordained in the cathedral. tree →
- The rules were ordained long ago. tree →
- And so the Emperor ordained that a bridge should be made the whole way. tree →
note
Regular verb: ordain, ordained. Mostly used in the passive: «was ordained». Formal or religious word; ordinary speech uses «made a priest» or «ordered». Related noun: ordination.
In the corpora
- O LORD, Thou hast ordained them for judgment, and Thou, O Rock, hast established them for correction.
- Thou hast ordained Thy precepts, that we should observe them diligently.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ordained» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.