ordain

Verb

• issue an order

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

• appoint to a clerical posts
  • he was ordained in the Church
    

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  consecrate , ordinate , order , enact