What is another word for ordains?

Pronunciation: [ɔːdˈe͡ɪnz] (IPA)

Ordains is a verb that means to establish or decree something officially. Some synonyms for ordains include appoints, sanctions, mandates, authorizes, enacts, and sets. Appoints refers to the designation of someone to a particular role or position. Sanctions conveys the idea of imposing a penalty or restriction on something, often for violating a rule or law. Mandates and authorizes both suggest granting a permission or approval for something. Enacts implies making something into a law or regulation. Sets denotes arranging or fixing something in a particular way. Each of these synonyms can be used interchangeably with ordains depending on the specific context in which it is being used.

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Usage examples for Ordains

But superstition ordains involuntary parenthood, and capitalism ordains that land shall be held out of use for speculation, or shall be exploited for rent!
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
"I am only doing what my destiny ordains," she would tell herself.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
But, as fate so ordains, such considerations are trivial; I am her rightful choice.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Famous quotes with Ordains

  • How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
    Terence
  • God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
    Georges Bernanos
  • How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
    Terence
  • Secondly, the student is trained to accept historical mis-statements on the authority of the book. If education is a pre- paration for adult life, he learns first to accept without question, and later to make his own contribution to the creation of historical fallacies, and still later to perpetuate what he has learnt. In this way, ignorant authors are leading innocent students to hysterical conclusions. The process of the writers' mind provides excellent material for a manual on logical fallacies. Thirdly, the student is told nothing about the relationship between evidence and truth. The truth is what the book ordains and the teacher repeats. No source is cited. No proof is offered. No argument is presented. The authors play a dangerous game of winks and nods and faints and gestures with evidence. The art is taught well through precept and example. The student grows into a young man eager to deal in assumptions but inapt in handling inquiries. Those who become historians produce narratives patterned on the textbooks on which they were brought up. Fourthly, the student is compelled to face a galling situation in his later years when he comes to realize that what he had learnt at school and college was not the truth. Imagine a graduate of one of our best colleges at the start of his studies in history in a university in Europe. Every lecture he attends and every book he reads drive him mad with exasperation, anger and frustration. He makes several grim discoveries. Most of the "facts", interpretations and theories on which he had been fostered in Pakistan now turn out to have been a fata morgana, an extravaganza of fantasies and reveries, myths and visions, whims and utopias, chimeras and fantasies.
    Khursheed Kamal Aziz
  • It became increasingly evident to me that God ordains times of illness so that they can be a time of inner recollection for those who are afflicted by them, an opportunity to recognize better what is going wrong in their lives, to take stock of their daily lives from the distant perspective of a hospital stay, to gain a clearer view of their problems and thereby become better able to master them. To this end discussion is important, which means that the physician ought to be a person of prayer who always has at hand a full supply of possibilities to help.
    Adrienne von Speyr

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