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ordain
verb as in establish, install
Example Sentences
He retired from boxing aged 28 and became an ordained minister.
After a second professional loss, Foreman retired in 1977 and became an ordained minister at the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Texas, which he founded and built.
In 2008, it voted to ordain women as bishops, and many recent meetings have included discussion of same-sex marriages.
The world, as even an American teenager knows, has moved beyond that limited view of gender, and nothing will change that — not even an order from a man who believes his presidency is divinely ordained.
It is designed to make it clear that the new king is the legitimate monarch, ordained by God.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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