ordained
- adjective
- /ɔrˈdeɪnd/
- Formal
:
establecido
- Neither of these futures are ordained or inevitable.
One has an ordained part to play.
- One has an ordained part to play.
- And so I see even cancer is a gift, is a God ordained opportunity.
Examples
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And I think there is some pre ordained pieces that I have the ability to to manifest or to play out.
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The council has passed an ordained law that prohibits smoking in public parks.
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One has an ordained part to play.
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And so I see even cancer is a gift, is a God ordained opportunity.
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And so I see even cancer is a gift, is a God ordained opportunity.
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So this is not something that is ordained from the education gods.
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What he says like that, he says it was ordained through angels by a mediator.
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It's one of our most compulsive habits to search for four ordained scripts for what we do eccentrically.
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The committee established an ordained set of rules to ensure fairness in the competition.
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The ordained period for submitting applications is from June to August each year.
Synonyms
An official order fixes a date or rule
An official rule or authority sets what must be done
Someone in charge decides something for others with no choice
Set for a specific time or place
Decided before it happens
Decided or arranged before something happens
How Fixed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ordained comes from the Latin root ordinare, meaning 'to put in order', the same root as order. That's why an ordained rule, time, or plan is one that has been 'set' or fixed by authority.