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Example sentences for "ordained"

Lexicographically close words:
orchis; orchitis; ordain; ordaind; ordaine; ordainer; ordainers; ordaines; ordaineth; ordaining
  1. He was appointed tutor of Oriel in 1839, and was ordained the same year.

  2. He was ordained priest, and received various ecclesiastical preferments.

  3. At length the day came for my ordination, and I had the inestimable privilege of being ordained as curate to my revered and beloved uncle, Mr. Francis Cunningham, Vicar of Lowestoft and Rector of Pakefield.

  4. Cow-dung ashes are the blanc de perle, and the raw substance itself is the ordained cosmetic of Hindu devotees.

  5. When his women folk walk with him, they follow respectfully an ordained number of paces behind, and he flings his conversation over his shoulder.

  6. The heavy head of the mule is a mercy to him, for both in practice and the written orders of Government it is ordained that he is not to be bothered with bearing-reins.

  7. They are effectually tamed in India, which is an easy matter, and they practise for the benefit of the fisherman the art to which they are ordained by nature.

  8. And, to make amends, he ordained that in every enterprise Ganesa's name should be the first called upon.

  9. The ordained procedure is that the hooded leopard is taken afield on a cart driven near a herd of black-buck, shown the game, and slipped.

  10. For in America, where they want no teaching about horses, ambling is a regularly ordained gait.

  11. The elaborate damnations ordained by Brahmanical authority for cow-killing will appear monstrous to a future generation of Hindus.

  12. Bede was ordained priest in 705, during the reign of King Ealhfrith of Northumbria, by John, Bishop of Hexham, better known as John of Beverley.

  13. In 604 he ordained Mellitus Bishop of London, where Ethelbert's nephew Sebert, King of Essex, was willing to receive him.

  14. It was becoming something more than a dream amongst them, that it was ordained that they should bring back to their kindred these new ideas and this fresh knowledge.

  15. Judas is ordained bishop of Jerusalem, and his name is changed to Cyriacus.

  16. Fate surely ordained That so full of faith and so dear to God In realm of the world he should become, [So] pleasing to Christ.

  17. Hills to his new mission, and that Mr. Lupson, Scripture Reader, should be ordained and go as one of these.

  18. The Bishop had ordained five deacons and four priests at St. Nicholas’ Church.

  19. Status of clergy ordained elsewhere than in England or Ireland, or ordained for service in the colonies or foreign countries--Scottish clergy.

  20. But, unless he has been so ordained by a bishop of the Church of England or of the Church of Ireland, or by a commissary of an English bishop under 15 & 16 Vict.

  21. Why but because an omen of my fate was ordained to be communicated?

  22. Whether our felicity was to be subverted by it to-morrow, or whether it was ordained that we should lay down our heads full of years and of honor, was a question that no human being could solve.

  23. It was ordained by the Charter that all the King's subjects in the colony should enjoy all the privileges of free and natural born subjects within the realm of England.

  24. He is then ordained priest, instructs Ethelbald in the Christian religion, and prophecies that he will be king.

  25. For twenty years not a single priest had been ordained there; religious vocations were no longer heard of.

  26. Mrs Rowland had ordained that she should go; but Philip had supported the girl in her resolution to bear anything, rather than leave her mistress while it was essential to her mistress's comfort that she should stay.

  27. Hugh had been ordained "on his patrimony," but he was advised to take up ministerial work.

  28. He was ordained deacon in 1894 at Addington, or rather in Croydon parish church, by my father, whose joy in admitting his beloved son to the Anglican ministry was very great indeed.

  29. Among other things it ordained that no longer, as of old, should a peasant, as the representative of the people, confer the royal dignity upon the heir to the throne, but the man of highest rank present.

  30. In 1824 he was ordained in the Anglican church, and four years later was chosen vicar of St. Mary's, at Oxford, where his sermons made a deep impression on the cultivated audiences that gathered from far and near to hear him.

  31. Not till he was thirty-seven was he ordained and placed over the little church of Bemerton.

  32. In a sense the State is ordained by God, but only in the sense of being a necessary condition for the existence of a Christian Commonwealth.

  33. The punishment ordained by our laws for treasons committed by women, whether high or petty, is burning alive.

  34. But through this last and greatest of their princes it was ordained that the inspired Hebrew mind should mould and govern the world.

  35. It is the punishment ordained for their rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah.

  36. But I must tear up these thoughts from my heart by their roots, and remember that I am ordained for other deeds.

  37. I must not even consider an event that had been pre-ordained by the Creator of the world for countless ages.

  38. Because they did not believe that law came from God, and that the powers that be are ordained by Him.

  39. They said that the especial office for which the Lord had ordained them, was to be witnesses of His resurrection.

  40. And He will be a man at the day of judgment; for it is written that: "God hath ordained a day in which He will judge the world by a man whom He hath chosen.

  41. In a similar manner this Society supported for several years the missionary labors of Lars Paul Esbjorn, a graduate of Upsala University, who was ordained a Lutheran clergyman when he emigrated in 1849, and likewise the labors of T.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    condemn; destined; devoted; doomed; elect; fatal; fated; fateful; inevitable; marked; predetermined; written