ordained
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It is impossible to prove whether such incidents were ordained or carried out by Chinese government authorities.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
When she was ordained in 2009 at age 65, she was hired as the rabbi at the same Morgan Hill synagogue and worked there until 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
She was still performing that role when she was ordained as a priest in 2002 and became the first female Bishop of London in 2018.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing ordained
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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