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Webster 1828 Edition


Ordained

ORDA'INED

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Appointed; instituted; established; invested with ministerial or pastoral functions; settled.

Definition 2024


ordained

ordained

English

Adjective

ordained (not comparable)

  1. Established by authority.
  2. Admitted to the ministry of the church.
    There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister.

Verb

ordained

  1. simple past tense and past participle of ordain