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ordained

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adjective

having been invested with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions:
Today’s lecturer is an ordained rabbi and a Talmudic scholar.
having been decreed, appointed, or formally established by some authority:
If questioned, I will invoke my constitutionally ordained right to avoid incriminating myself.
having been destined or predestined:
Cortez believed himself the ordained conqueror of the Aztec Empire.

Usually the ordained. a person or persons who have been invested with ministerial, priestly, or rabbinical functions, or the category of those so invested:
Christian leaders, especially the ordained, are expected to reflect and model the faith which they profess and teach.

Most people know the Universal Life Church as a quick and easy place to get ordained without leaving your couch.

He became ordained and created a new service for his company.

As a young man, Darwin was deeply religious and even considered being ordained.

Yup, Evelyn and Donald Knapp are “ordained Christian ministers” suing for the right to discriminate.

Those words were said by Joshu Sasaki Roshi, who ordained Leonard Cohen as a Zen monk in 1996.

And I am told that the governor ordained what had to be done, namely, to make no investigations against the dead woman.

As far above the interference of man as is the government of the external universe, is that designated the covenant, as ordained.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength (founded glory).

Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.

They despise the word of him who ordained that good the most extensive should come to sinners through that covenant.

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