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. 

Thou art the great ordainer of all created Beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Yudhishthira the just, for thou art the ordainer of all the ordinances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

It is not the ideal method, but the infraction involved for the ordainer bhikshus is minor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Four: Day Three and Final Comments by His Holiness] Reference

He is the Creator and the ordainer: he is the Lord possessed of puissance, with faces turned in all directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

He is always the great dispenser and ordainer in the matter of the happiness and sorrow of all living creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

I shall now cite another authority, depending upon that was declared by the ordainer himself, and established in the Vedas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

He is the ordainer of the ends that are attained to by persons acquainted with and observant of scriptural and other duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Reflecting even deeply, I do not behold the end of this continuous stream that is the great ordainer of all things and that is certainly celestial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen: Of the two methods of bhikshuni ordination recommended, if it is by a single sangha, this would be valid and the ordainer bhikshus would only incur a minor infraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Four: Day Three and Final Comments by His Holiness] Reference

Living within the same sangha community as the ordination candidates, such ordainer bhikshunis would be better able to evaluate the readiness of these candidates to take bhikshuni ordination and would be better able to serve as ongoing personal mentors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Two: Day One] Reference

If dual sangha ordination is instituted by including in the ordainer assembly bhikshunis holding Dharmagupta ordination, but who have been following the Tibetan traditions of practice and study similar to those of the Mulasarvastivada bhikshus, there would be an additional advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Two: Day One] Reference

At the ordination of priests and bishops all the ordained concelebrate with the ordainer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Gloucester was the only ordainer who was present, and the only other earls in the host were Warenne and Gaveston himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

He is at most the infallible judge of actions, not the universal ordainer of events and distributor of life and happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference

The statement also noted such attempted ordinations incur an automatic, latae sententiae excommunication for both the ordainer and the would-be ordinand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clerical Whispers] Reference

Of course, in the former case, if an abdicated bishop should nevertheless ordain candidates, such action would be valid, as his episcopal character is indelible, but it would be entirely illicit and entail grave consequences both for ordainer and ordained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Shall we see throughout creation each marvel fulfilling its pre-ordered fate -- no wandering from its orbit -- no variation in its seasons -- and yet imagine that the Arch-ordainer will hold back the tides He has sent from their unseen source, at our miserable bidding?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference

Not the will of superiors, else there shall be no unlawful ordinances (for every ordinance hath the will of the ordainer), not the lawfulness of the thing in itself which is ordained neither, for then every ordinance which prescribeth a thing lawful in itself, were it never so inexpedient in respect of supervenient circumstances, should be lawful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

It may be alleged by the cynic, who regards virtue as an empty name; by the mystic, who is lapped in heavenly contemplation from the cares of this troublesome world; by the sceptic, whose whole wisdom is concentrated in the duty of submitting to the inevitable; or by the man who, abandoning the attempt of solving inscrutable enigmas, is content to recognise in everything the hand of a Divine ordainer of all things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference

Priests and bishops concelebrate at once with the ordainer (Euch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

"Draupadi said, -- 'The great ordainer of the world hath, indeed, ordained so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

No one can be his own ordainer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

Thou art the supreme ordainer of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

Thou art the ordainer and ruler of the tattwas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

The ordainer usually laid on only his right hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution] Reference

Supreme ordainer himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

He who at the time of his departure, with a steady mind, endued with reverence, with power of abstraction, and directing the life-breath called Prana between the eye-brows, thinketh of that ancient seer, who is the ruler (of all), who is minuter than the minutest atom, who is the ordainer of all, who is inconceivable in form, and who is beyond all darkness, cometh unto that Divine and Supreme Male.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference