Verb (used with object) : to ordain a new type of government. ,He ordained that the restrictions were to be lifted. ,Fate had ordained the meeting. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Thus do the gods ordain. From Dictionary.com.
Unfortunately, their pre-ordainment is not happening as planned. From Wordnik.com. [Final Des Moines Register Poll: Obama And Huckabee Ahead] Reference
I mean, I don't necessarily worry about it an ordainment amount of time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2007] Reference
The ordainment ceremony began at 6: 00 AM in the morning at the Forest Monastery, Chiang Kong. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: A Monk's Journey] Reference
We dismounted our elephants upon reaching the temple where the actual ordainment ceremony began. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: A Monk's Journey] Reference
Surprisingly, I did not find it difficult to memorize the verses that I was asked to recite for the ordainment. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: A Monk's Journey] Reference
He was an ordained minister already in college and he's the one who inspired me to get my own .... ummmm ... ordainment??. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
Now that can be just about anyone including a judge, a justice of the peace or a minister even if he/she got his or her ordainment by mail. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Marriage - The New Willy Horton] Reference
As many of you know from some of my tweets and Facebook updates, for the past week and a half I was in Thailand following my dad and documenting his ordainment into monkhood. From Wordnik.com. [Gotham Chopra: Notes from My Father's Monkhood Ceremony] Reference
All this took us to about noon, after which Jate and I mounted two elephants as part of a parade to the Buddhist Temple, where the ordainment and wearing of the monks robes was to take place. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: A Monk's Journey] Reference
I cannot see how anyone who listens a good deal to the BBC could be in any doubt that it fails to carry proper representation from Christians who regard homosexuality as incompatible with ordainment. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT A GAY DAY] Reference
From this vision it appears that permitting any minister presenting facially valid credentials of ordainment to celebrate and solemnize a marriage is within the discretion of the county clerk of the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Minor but Annoying Example of Unconstitutional Religious Discrimination in Virginia Marriage Law:] Reference
The system is now so well established that the employers apparently regard it as their sacred right and privilege to exploit the laborers, and the laborers themselves have been led by long submission and faulty teaching to believe that the system is a part of the natural order, a result of divine ordainment. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
Stephen Glass rode the fast curve of instant ordainment that encircles the celebrity age of the 90s; his reputation in the incestuous world of Washington magazine journalism exploded so exponentially after a few of his better-than-true stories that he could basically write anything and get away with it, regardless of the fact that his reporting almost always uncovered the near incredible and was laden with shoddy sourcing. From Wordnik.com. [Shattered Glass] Reference
Anglican churches have split off over the ordainment question. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Avi Weiss is not one for subtle gestures, yet even he recognized that this ordainment would require an unusual level of political finesse. From Wordnik.com. [FailedMessiah.com] Reference
I became ordained as a way of putting into context just how ridiculous the notion of religious ordainment is - that and I wanted to perform marriages. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
In the very channels of our own blood the poisonous and non-poisonous germs are constantly striving for the mastery, and how can we escape the general ordainment?. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
It is the most beautiful campanile of all, and its inevitableness is such that did we not know the truth we should wonder if the six days of creation had not included an afternoon for the ordainment of such edifices. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference
"Touching the King's majesty's ordainment concerning books and such like serious matters, it may peradventure please your highness to ease your time with lightsome entertainment, lest you go wearied to the banquet and suffer harm thereby.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and the Pauper] Reference
Celebrity preacher in copper-coloured revenge (4 Apr 09) The Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Lund ruled on Wednesday that the actions of the 66-year-old male pastor were "unbefitting to his ordainment oath" and ordered that he be placed on probation for three years. From Wordnik.com. [The Local - Sweden's news in English] Reference
The sun does not fail to rise each morning, whether clouds obscure the sky or not, -- the moon appears at her stated seasons and performs her silver-footed pilgrimage faithfully to time -- the stars move with precision in their courses, -- and so true are they to their ordainment, that we are able to predict the manner in which they will group themselves and shine, years after we have passed away. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Christian] Reference
Man's ordainment is not God's ordainment!. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
First was the ordainment of. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He celebrated 25 years of ordainment in March. From Wordnik.com. [Iowa City Press-Citizen - Local News] Reference
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