ordained是什么意思？

ordained

• v. 任命（某人）为牧师( ordain的过去式和过去分词 )，授予（某人）圣职，（上帝、法律等）命令，判定；

例句

• He was ordained in 1984. 他在一九八四年被任命为牧师。
• 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。
• 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。
• He became a fully ordained monk at the age of 20. 他在20岁的时候成了正式的修道士。
• The law was divinely ordained. 律法神定。
• Destiny has ordained that they are who they are. 命运已经决定了他们的性格为人。
• He had been ordained as a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church. 他被任命为天主教的助祭。
• He was ordained bishop and assumed the cathedra of the Diocese of Taichung in 1986. 他在1986年获任命为主教出任台中教区的主教宝座.
• Augustine's Seminary, and was ordained as a priest in 1991 for the archdiocese of Toronto. 吴神父在一九九一年晋升神父圣品职位,为多伦多总教区服务,牧养天主子民.
• His rule was ordained by heaven... 他的统治乃是天命。

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。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. fixed or established especially by order or command;
  "at the time appointed (or the appointed time")
  2. invested with ministerial or priestly functions;
  "an ordained priest"