Our online definition dictionary will help you to locate definitions for many tricky words. This page contains information such as what does ordain mean. If you're trying to describe ordain - our website is a great source of information.

• Why did they ordain me with so much ceremony? - "The Shadow of the Cathedral", Vicente Blasco Ibañez.
• For these reasons thereunto moving us, after hearing the report of our chief antiquary, we do hereby appoint and ordain, that all the said venerable usages should be observed and kept up forever; and every person, through the whole extent of our dominions, shall dress and think precisely as men dressed and thought in the time of Cnidus Rufillus, proprietor of the province devolved to us by right," etc. - "A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version"", François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh.
• The right or power to ordain belongs solely to the Bishop and this he does with prayer and Laying on of Hands. - "The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia", William James Miller.