- appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed - fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time")
Antonym: unsettled (indirect, via settled)
- ordained - invested with ministerial or priestly functions; "an ordained priest"
Antonym: desecrated (indirect, via consecrated)
- ordain, enact - order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"
--1 is one way to decree
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order - appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"
--2 is one way to invest, vest, enthrone
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun ordainer1, noun ordinance3
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- ordain - invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"
--3 is one way to invest, vest, enthrone
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun ordainer1, noun ordinance3
Somebody ----s somebody
- ordain - issue an order
--4 is one way to decree
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun ordinance2
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE