ordained 规定
- The color of our flag and the numbers of stars and stripes are ordained, but there is no rule regarding dimension.
美国国旗的颜色、星星的数目、横条都是规定好了的,但尺寸大小就没有限制。 - Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
就是从约翰施洗起,直到主离开我们被接上升的日子为止,必须从那常与我们作伴的人中,立一位与我们同作耶稣复活的见证。 - For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
因为没有权柄不是出于神的。 凡掌权的都是神所命的。
ordained[ adj ]- fixed or established especially by order or command
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at the time appointed (or the appointed time
- invested with ministerial or priestly functions
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an ordained priest
Ordain \Or*dain"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ordained}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Ordaining}.] [OE. ordeinen, OF. ordener, F. ordonner, fr.
L. ordinare, from ordo, ordinis, order. See {Order}, and cf.
{Ordinance}.]
1. To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to
regulate; to set; to establish. ``Battle well ordained.''
--Spenser.
The stake that shall be ordained on either side.
--Chaucer.
2. To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law;
to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month. --1
Kings xii. 32.
And doth the power that man adores ordain
Their doom ? --Byron.
3. To set apart for an office; to appoint.
Being ordained his special governor. --Shak.
4. (Eccl.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal
functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian
ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to
set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.