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.

To set apart for special duties in the church as a Christian minister or elder.

invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"

To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.

To set apart for an office; to appoint.

order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"

To give a man a priesthood office by the laying on of hands.

To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.

To give authority.

issue an order