Ordain

(verb.) issue an order.

(verb.) appoint to a clerical posts; 'he was ordained in the Church'.

(verb.) invest with ministerial or priestly authority; 'The minister was ordained only last month'.

(verb.) order by virtue of superior authority; decree; 'The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews'; 'the legislature enacted this law in 1985'.

欧内斯特整理

• Might not that woman, by her labour, have made the reparation ordained by God in paying fourfold? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the Analytical has pre-ordained that pain and ridicule shall befall him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If Fate had ordained that she should be a Duchess, she would even have done that duty too. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I have been ordained, cried the old rascal. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He was ordained a priest in 1538, and a year later his long-dreamt-of order was founded under the military title of the Company of Jesus. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• God, who does the work, ordains the instrument. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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