ordain

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɔːˈdeɪn/    美 /ɔɹˈdeɪn/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To prearrange unalterably.
    — What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?
  2. To decree.
    — On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
  3. To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
  4. To predestine.

词形变化

ordains present,singular,third-person ordaining participle,present ordained participle,past ordained past

词汇关系

近义词
foresay
衍生词
coordain disordain foreordain misordain ordainable ordainee ordainer ordainment preordain reordain unordain
相关词
ordination

词源

From Middle English ordeynen, from Old French ordiner, from Latin ordinare (“to order”), from ordo (“order”). Doublet of ordinate.
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