📜 To order again 👔 To appoint again ⛪ To make priest again

to reordain

9.0

To make someone a priest or minister again

verb
/ˌriːɔːrˈdeɪn/

Formal

: reordenar

After years away from the church, the bishop agreed to reordain him as a minister.

Examples

The council voted unanimously to reordain the priest following his return to the community.
She was reordained after completing additional theological studies.
The bishop decided to reordain the pastor after the scandal.
Has the church reordained any ministers this year?
After his departure from the Episcopalian Church, he was reordained as a Catholic priest to continue his ministry.
Many former Anglican ministers seek to be reordained in the Catholic Church after converting.
The bishop confirmed that he would reordain the priest next Sunday during the special ceremony.

Antonyms

to defrock

Formal

6 9.1

To remove a priest or minister from their church job and rights

Surface Forms

reordain infinitive

reordained past

reordained past participle

reordaining present participle

reordains third person singular

Morphology

reordain = ordain (transparent) = re + ordain

This is a straightforward use of the productive prefix 're-' meaning 'again' attached to 'ordain'.

Etymology

The word reordain joins the prefix re- 'again' with ordain 'to make a priest', a root you also see in ordination. So to reordain someone is to make them a priest or minister again.