ordain
释义：
ordain
ordain，英语单词，主要用作及物动词、不及物动词，作及物动词时译为“任命某人为牧师；授某人以圣职；（上帝、法律等）命令；注定”，作不及物动词时译为“颁布命令”。
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英语
词源
源自中古英语 ordeynen，源自古法语 ordiner，源自拉丁语 ordinare (“命令”)，源自ordo (“命令”)。ordinate的同源对似词。
发音
动词
ordain（第三人称单数简单现在时 ordains，现在分词 ordaining，一般过去时及过去分词 ordained）
- 注定
- Template:RQ:Pope Essay on Man
- 裁定，规定
- 1961 November，H. G. Ellison and P. G. Barlow，“Journey through France: Part One”，出自 Trains Illustrated, 页号668:
- 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.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- (宗教) 授予...圣职（如祭司、主教等）
变位
ordain的变位
近义词
- foresay
衍生词汇
- ordainment
- preordain
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参见
延伸阅读
- ordain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ordain in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- OneLook 在线词典 上有关 ordain 的释义
