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   Ordain , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordained ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ordaining.] [OE. ordeinen, OF. ordener, F. ordonner, fr. L. ordinare, from ordo, ordinis, order.  See Order, and cf. Ordinance.]
   To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. “Battle well ordained.”  
   Spenser.
   
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   The stake that shall be ordained on either side.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
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   Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month.
   1 Kings xii. 32.
   
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   And doth the power that man adores ordain
   Their doom ?
   Byron.
   
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   To set apart for an office; to appoint.
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   Being ordained his special governor.
   Shak.
   
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   (Eccl.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
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   Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops.
   Bp. Stillingfleet.
   
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