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ordained

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1. ordained - Adjective

2. ordained - Verb

4. ordained - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Ordain

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead. Paul

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. Basil of Caesarea

God gave all men all the earth to love but, since our hearts are so small, ordained for each, one spot to be beloved over all. Rudyard Kipling

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? David Lloyd George

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Edmund Burke

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly. Flora Thompson

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