ordained

verb

Definition of ordainednext
past tense of ordain
1
as in destined
to determine the fate of in advance he is stoic in the face of adversity, bolstered by his faith that everything in life has been ordained by a higher power

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2
as in ordered
to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority a new bill that would ordain the funding of public schools through state lottery revenues

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3
as in enacted
to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action the founders of the African republic ordained a form of government that was closely modeled on that of the United States

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ordained
  1. destined
  2. enacted
  3. doomed
  4. requested
  5. passed
Verb
  • The smart money is on the episode also revealing the fate of Beth’s treacherous brother, Jamie, who seems destined to take a trip to the train station.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In the final year of his contract and set to break the bank in free agency as the top WR on the market, 25-year-old Higgins has seemed destined to depart the team that selected him in the second round of the 2020 draft out of Clemson.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of destined
Verb
  • The federal legislation that created this approach was enacted in 1973 and quickly accepted nationwide.
    Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • That means the new 119th Congress, sworn in January 2025, could vote to reverse any of Biden’s policies enacted after about the beginning of August 2024, with a simple majority.
    Dipka Bhambhani, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of enacted
Verb
  • That, as well as personal details from his decades-old divorce and disagreements with lawmakers, doomed his nomination.
    Elena Moore, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
  • See the wild 'Monday Night Football' play that doomed the Cowboys.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of doomed
Verb
  • The sentence, requested on Tuesday, includes two years under house arrest with electronic monitoring and three years suspended.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The final motion requested a dismissal once again, as election crimes can only be introduced by the county district attorney, not the state’s attorney general.
    Andi Shae Napier, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of requested
Verb
  • The country’s senate in Prague today passed a number of amendments that will make top-line changes to the Audiovisual Act beginning in January.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The dream turned into a nightmare when Lucy succumbed to cytomegalovirus (CMV), an infection that can be passed from a mother to her baby during pregnancy.
    Nancy Borowick, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
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