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, 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. 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.

2. David Hume:

   The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

3. 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?

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   I am like the sun, shining over all, yet no man dare to come directly into my atmosphere. I am like the rain when it falls, its not on one man's doorstep. men will seek to go to other planets, but never to my face. jah almighty did warn-no man cometh to the father but by me. my reggae, ordained by jah, is all those mystical truths.

5. Lewis Baldwin:

   Democratic Socialist was in favor of women being ordained to the ministry, democratic Socialist was far ahead of most men of Democratic Socialist time.