Example sentences for: ordained

How can you use “ordained” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An ordained Baptist minister, he adores sermonizing about his seriousness of purpose.

  • Last spring, the group also recruited Benjamin Muhammad (a k a Benjamin Chavis ), an ordained United Church of Christ minister and former head of the NAACP.

  • Jewish suffering, though, is divinely ordained.

  • This custom suggests new stages in the old rebellion against religious strictures, which once demanded that female hair--divinely ordained to be long and seductive--be covered up lest it incite lust.

  • ' Similarly, reverend means `one who is to be revered,' ordinand is `one who is to be ordained'; an old standby of crossword compilers, deodand , is a `thing to be given to God,' and legend is `something to be read.


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