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. 

The description of "a calling" or "being called" to be ordained is moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review - A Church of Her Own] Reference

The ordained are a sacred brotherhood who are to be revered -- not for what they do, but for who they are: ordained.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Besides this, the footemen being wel ordained, which is the puissance of the armie, good horses of necessitie will come to be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Machiavelli, Volume I] Reference

Jedi outfits were out because those guys are genetically pre-ordained, which is antithetical to the idea of us training for this race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash! Ah-ahhhhhh!] Reference

The girls are getting 'ordained' in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 31st.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-11] Reference

Pictured, Joan Houk, who is to be "ordained" Monday, July 31 on a boat in Pittsburgh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh Ladyeeeeeeeeeeee...] Reference

But with a lay person, even someone "ordained" by a non-Catholic sect, there's no guarantee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordinatio Sacerdotalis] Reference

Since when are men "ordained" as "bishops" by Marcel Lefebvre to be considered actual bishops?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A little snag with the SSPX reunion] Reference

Leadership material should be allowed to be read to only a few, those who are "ordained" to leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ironic Quotes of the Day (Roger Olson)] Reference

Well, once again a few Catholic women have got themselves "ordained" as priests, this time in St. Louis yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oops, they did it again...] Reference

A group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests Movement in Canada has announced it has "ordained" three ladies as priests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

I do not use the word ordained, because.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vicissitudes in Genteel Life] Reference

Mr. Burris declares his appointment as "ordained" by the Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters in Bottles] Reference

But most churches in the NT were not planted by our equivalent of "ordained" clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movements that change the world] Reference

"ordained" in the same way that deacons, priests and bishops were.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Catholic Reporter] Reference

"'I don't exactly understand this" ordained "business, 'was the trapper's reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference

3 He was ordained by Bishop Michael Cox, who also | 'ordained' the singer Sinead O'Connor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

"ordained" by a duly-consecrated bishop, and therefore, their "ordaination" has sacramental validity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference

Mickelson's victory was hard earned, never ordained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Masterful] Reference

"It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that Psalm to be read on that morning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [God and the Founders] Reference

Jackie Mason (who was a cantor for 25 years and then ordained a rabbi) is funnier than I am.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spiritual State: The Naked Graduate] Reference

As an assistant bishop of Newark in 1990, Righter ordained Stopfel at the request of his own superior, Bishop Spong.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bishop In The Dock] Reference

An ordained Baptist minister, Robb shed his hooded robe for business suits and doesn't shy away from the press or public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming Soon: Klub Kkk] Reference