ORDAIN in a Sentence
Learn ORDAIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
18 example sentences for ORDAIN, such as:
1. It must have been fate that so ordained.
2. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
3. They ordain justice and magistrates, and the august senate.
4. The king would ordain that no foreigner should be allowed to enter the city.
5. This hath beautiful Proserpine ordained to be borne to her for her proper gift.
2. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
3. They ordain justice and magistrates, and the august senate.
4. The king would ordain that no foreigner should be allowed to enter the city.
5. This hath beautiful Proserpine ordained to be borne to her for her proper gift.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of ORDAIN
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
ordain
v. invest with ministerial or priestly authority
v. appoint to a clerical posts
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 They ordain justice and magistrates, and the august senate.
2 Then will I ordain to Phoebus and Trivia a temple of solid marble, and festal days in Phoebus' name.
3 Father Jove," answered the stockman, "would indeed that you might so ordain it.
4 She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy, or, we may rather say, the world's heavy hand had so ordained her, when neither the world nor she looked forward to this result.
5 Edward have got some business at Oxford, he says; so he must go there for a time; and after THAT, as soon as he can light upon a Bishop, he will be ordained.
6 Ay, to be sure, he must be ordained in readiness; and I am very glad to find things are so forward between you.
7 His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain.
8 I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
9 Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
10 It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril; but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.
11 Bid her haste and sprinkle river water over her body, and bring with her the beasts ordained for expiation: so let her come: and thou likewise veil thy brows with a pure chaplet.
12 This hath beautiful Proserpine ordained to be borne to her for her proper gift.
13 Then he left the country and went to Argos, where it was ordained that he should reign over much people.
14 "I have been ordained," cried the old rascal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
15 It must have been fate that so ordained.
Example Sentence:
1 The king would ordain that no foreigner should be allowed to enter the city.
2 There is strong support here for the tough economic reforms ordained in the federal capital, Prague.