Synonyms for Ordained
or·dained

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1. appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribedadjective

   fixed or established especially by order or command

   "at the time appointed (or the appointed time")

   Synonyms:
   prescribed, ordained, appointed, official, appointive, decreed, positive

   Antonyms:
   unsettled, desecrated

2. ordainedadjective

   invested with ministerial or priestly functions

   "an ordained priest"

   Synonyms:
   prescribed, appointed, decreed

   Antonyms:
   desecrated, unsettled

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1. List of paraphrases for "ordained":

   ordered

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1. Martin Luther:

   Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

2. David Lloyd George:

   Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

3. Kid Rock:

   I am definitely a Republicanon fiscal issues and the military, but I lean to the middle on social issues. I am no fan of abortion, but it’s not up to a man to tell a woman what to do. As an ordained minister I don’t look forward to marrying gay people, but I’m not opposed to it.

4. Bolivia Augustin and Michelle:

   I grew up in a pretty classic Taiwanese American household. Excellence in everything you do is expected and I had fulfilled my cultural destiny already by then by going to Harvard and going to the Juilliard School for Music, but I had never done anything that was not planned out or pre-ordained for me. When I quit the only industry I had ever worked in, I was pretty lost.

5. Rick Perry:

   I'm a big believer that the God of our universe is still very active in the details of the day-to-day lives of government, you know, Barack Obama doesn't get to be the President of the United States without being ordained by God. Neither did Donald Trump.