Usually means: Establishes officially by ecclesiastical authority.
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  1. ordains: Merriam-Webster
  2. ordains: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. ordains: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ordains: Wiktionary
  7. ordains: Dictionary.com
  8. ordains: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ordains: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See ordain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ordain)

verb:  To prearrange unalterably.
verb:  To decree.
verb:  (religion) To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
verb:  To predestine.
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