(v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
(v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
(v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(2) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(3) Cameron replied: “I don’t think they will want to be and I think they will feel pressure and want to do more.” “We should try to encourage them to do it in their own way rather than say there is some pre-ordained route they have to follow.” He said the US had managed to cut its carbon emissions thanks to the “unexpected bonus” of the “shale revolution” – widely known as fracking – which meant it was burning less coal.
(4) But Salinger ordained that these works should not be published until 50 years after his death.
(5) They leave with basic dry food in carrier bags, but no answer to an economy that ordains lifetimes of pay no family can live on.
(6) These observations are consistent with a model whereby RB expression acts as a cellular brake to sustain a developmentally ordained state of differentiation (i.e., preserve the "status quo"); and the down-regulation of heterogeneously distributed RB protein per cell below a threshold is part of the metabolic cascade culminating in terminal cell differentiation.
(7) The board ordains other conditions, such as warm clothing, essential for outdoor work.
(8) He respects his colleagues who took a different view and says that the discussions over recent days have been some of the best he has been involved in the church since being ordained in 1993.
(9) Following the change in the law, church leaders, headed by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, Justin Welby and John Sentamu respectively, decided that clergy must not enter into a same-sex marriage and that those in a gay marriage would not be ordained.
(10) AL Kennedy: 'Salmond has the warm potato head of a man who is Scottish and – we hope – no threat' Dundee-born AL Kennedy, 45, is an ordained minister, standup and dramatist, as well as an award-winning fiction writer.
(11) He did not believe the United States was safe.” Doggart’s defense attorneys said their client is an ordained minister with the Christian National Church, has numerous degrees and certificates and is a veteran.
(12) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
(13) The number of bishops in the Holy Synod increased from 20 to 83; four bishops were ordained in Britain, where 30,000 Egyptian Copts live.
(14) King was ordained, did a doctoral degree at Boston University, and then in 1955 became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, an upper-income Negro church in Montgomery, Alabama.
(15) Leonard once used the law of trespass to prevent 100 men and women accepting the ministration of a female priest ordained abroad.
(16) Labour's Criminal Justice Act in 2003 ordained longer sentences, while asbos and other licences led to more people being jailed for breaching them.
(17) The Dude even made it into the top 10 of Empire’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time and a religion promoting his life philosophy, Dudeism, has over 250,000 ordained priests.
(18) They take vows of poverty and chastity, but they are not ordained, which is why they have no power," said Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns .
(19) Mackie plays Harry Mitchell, an agent tasked with keeping Damon to his ordained "plan" and away from love interest Emily Blunt.
(20) I would ... attach importance to the fact that Father Baldwin had been appointed by his bishop as parish priest: that is not simply to be equated with his status as ordained priest."
Prearrange
Definition:
(v. t.) To arrange beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(2) Health Maintenance Organizations are defined by the following characteristics: 1) they are total health care delivery systems; 2) they consist of a voluntarily enrolled population; 3) agreed-upon services are provided by a prearranged and prepaid fee; and 4) the organizations bear the risk of providing the services for the prearranged fee.
(3) Blood samples were collected by femoral vein puncture with light anesthesia under prearranged schedule and were assayed for LH-RH, LH, estrogen and progestin.
(4) Angela Merkel's spokesman said a prearranged meeting was taking place, but it had nothing to do with the idea that Greece would leave the euro.
(5) Insiders at News Corp, which last week disclosed the phone-hacking scandal had so far cost it almost $200m, maintain it is a prearranged visit that has nothing to do with the latest allegations dogging Murdoch's newspaper interests.
(6) Without minimizing the demonstrated effectiveness of short-term therapies, we propose that setting prearranged time limits be either replaced or supplemented by the implementation of a "time limited attitude."
(7) Making a regular, prearranged appearance before the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) , which oversees the force, Stephenson conceded again that he had "got it wrong" on the first student protest a fortnight ago when fewer than 250 officers were overwhelmed by a crowd of more than 50,000, some of whom stormed the office building containing the Conservative party headquarters.
(8) At a prearranged press conference Cameron and Clegg tried to draw a line under the episode by chiding Cable, saying he had been right to be embarrassed and to apologise.
(9) He denied it, brushed it off, claimed it was a prearranged gift and got away with it.
(10) Neoadjuvant intra-arterial chemotherapy followed by partial cystectomy should be the most applicable conservative therapy with high radicality for invasive bladder cancer, when: 1) the patient has localized invasive cancer showing good response (greater than or equal to PR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 2) the tumor is stage T3a or less and without findings of tentacular invasion (INF gamma) by pre-operative biopsy, and 3) pre-operative multiple biopsy is performed as deeply as possible along the prearranged incision line.
(11) Spontaneity and deviation from prearranged plans was featured in many of the accidents.
(12) We have the setting and the instrument, both of which exist naturally and without any prearranged orchestration.
(13) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(14) Uranium Registry (USUR) Case 1001] had prearranged for donation of her body to the USUR and the National Cancer Institute for study.
(15) 27 patients were seen at a prearranged outpatient clinic 10 to 15 years after the last operation.
(16) One hundred and eighty-eight anesthesiologists were tested to compare the number of prearranged anesthesia machine faults that could be detected with 1) their own checkout methods and 2) the FDA checklist.
(17) But the members of the ISC are appointed by the prime minister and not by parliament, and there was criticism when it emerged after the hearing that the questions asked had been prearranged with the security chiefs.
(18) Group III received the same dose schedule of prostaglandin after intracervical laminaria tents had been inserted, and prochlorperazine and Lomotil were administered by the prearranged dose schedule.
(19) Information about emergency equipment, prearranged emergency plans, advanced life support training, and emergency medical services assistance was elicited.
(20) Home visiting often achieves much more than prearranged hospital or clinic appointments which are often not kept.