He ordains fidelity, and I will keep His commandments as a faithful Hebrew ought to keep them.
Plato ordains in his Laws that he who has performed any signal and advantageous exploit in war may not be refused during the whole expedition, his age or ugliness notwithstanding, a kiss or any other amorous favour from any woman whatever.
It moreover enlarges the amount of the legitim, and ordains that the dowry of the wife should be met by a donatio propter nuptias of equal value from the husband, and that, in the interest of the children, both should be inalienable.
The queen becomes stunned and soliloquises:-- "What is play to me, Providence ordains to be a stern fact.
Sakuntala does not hear it, but Priyambada hears it and by entreaties appeases the wrath of the sage, who being conciliated ordains that the curse would cease at the sight of some ornament of recognition.
Persons therefore may be very wicked in doing what God ordains to be done, if they act without his command.
That civil government, so called in distinction from religious government, is ordained by God is fully admitted, and also that God ordains whatsoever comes to pass.
Best our lot will be, What Heaven's high will ordains when man obeys.
But superstitionordains involuntary parenthood, and capitalism ordains that land shall be held out of use for speculation, or shall be exploited for rent!
God ordainsnothing that is not for good, therefore you cannot be here with any evil purpose!
I, who had said that "God ordains nothing that is not for good"--was suddenly ready to believe that He had ordained the death of the lover to whom His laws had guided me!
The Constitution ordains that members of both the Houses shall be paid for their time, but it does not decree the amount.
Sun, Founder of the Republic of China, the People's Congress of the Republic of China hereby ordains and enacts this Constitution and causes it to be promulgated throughout the land for faithful and perpetual observance by all.
The New Act ordains that auditors should be sent out periodically by the Ministry to visit the Government offices and scrutinize their books and vouchers.
The first section of the Constitution ordains that-- All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Nevertheless it is well to observe that one does not ask why God foresees the thing, for that is understood, it is because it will be: but one asks why he ordains thus, why he hardens such an one, why he has compassion on another.
Athelstan ordains that there shall be a mint in every burh; and his laws show that already the burh has its gemot or meeting, and its reeve or mayor.
Rochester, and ordains that they should keep two courts' leet and a court of pie-powder annually on the Bullie Hill.
He ordains that all burhs are to be repaired fourteen days after Rogations, and that no market shall be held outside the town.
One part of this regulation is rather hard and should surely be abolished; that, viz, which ordains a woman shall not come between two men or a man pass between two women.
Scripture ordainsthat the Hebrew slave who loves his bondage shall have his ears pierced against the doorpost.
Intelligent itself to the marvellous degrees already indicated, it is evident also that its intelligence penetrates and ordains the whole body.
Month after month, the sacrificer ordains Him as a sacrifice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
