ordain是什么意思？

ordain

英[ɔ:ˈdeɪn] 美[ɔrˈdeɪn]

• vt. 任命（某人）为牧师，授予（某人）圣职，（上帝、法律等）命令，判定；

第三人称单数：ordains;

过去式：ordained;

过去分词：ordained;

现在分词：ordaining;

例句

• Does Joel 2:28 permit us ordain women preachers? 约珥书2:28允许我们任命女传道 吗 ?
• The church's ruling body voted to ordain women as priests. 该教会的管理机构投票通过接纳女性为牧师。
• He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops. 他自行任命了牧师，还扬言要任命主教。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  授予…圣职;任命…为神职人员
  When someone is ordained, they are made a member of the clergy in a religious ceremony.
  例句
  He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1982... 他于1982年被任命为天主教司铎。 Women have been ordained for many years in the Church of Scotland... 苏格兰长老会多年前就已开始任命女性担任圣职。
• VERB
  规定；决定；主宰
  If some authority or power ordains something, they decide that it should happen or be in existence.
  例句
  Destiny has ordained that they are who they are... 命运已经决定了他们的性格为人。 His rule was ordained by heaven... 他的统治乃是天命。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  任命(某人)为牧师, 授予(某人)圣职
  He was ordained in 1984. 他在一九八四年被任命为牧师。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. order by virtue of superior authority; decree;
  "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews""the legislature enacted this law in 1985"
  2. appoint to a clerical posts;
  "he was ordained in the Church"
  3. invest with ministerial or priestly authority;
  "The minister was ordained only last month"
  4. issue an order

行业词典

• 法律： 规定；