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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ordain: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. ordain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. ordain: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. ordain: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Ordain: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. ordain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. ordain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. ordain: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Ordain, ordain: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. ordain: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. ordain: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. ordain: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Ordain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Ordain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. ordain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. ordain: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Ordain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. ordain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. ordain: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. ordain: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. ordain: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. ordain: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. ordain: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ordain: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  2. ORDAIN: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  3. ordain: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ordain: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ordain: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordain: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (ordain)

verb:  appoint to a clerical posts ("He was ordained in the Church")
verb:  invest with ministerial or priestly authority ("The minister was ordained only last month")
verb:  order by virtue of superior authority; decree ("The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews")
verb:  issue an order

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