ordination

in a sentence

"Of the two, reverend sir," said the voice like the deacon's, "I had rather miss an ordination dinner than to-night's meeting."  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, 1835

As it was ordained to be.†  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Each believes it was ordained by their own god as righteous vengeance, because of the unholy practices carried on in the city.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Absalom Jones, born a slave in 1746 and freed in 1784, was the first African-American to be ordained an Episcopal priest.†  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever, 1793, 2000

So did his teachers at the seminary, who deemed him too playful and impatient with pomp and procedure; they delayed his ordination.†  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

Just as in the passing age of international bankers every building had to have an ostentatious cornice, so now the coming age ordains that every building have a flat roof.†  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

In all the confederations which had been formed before the American Constitution of 1789 the allied States agreed to obey the injunctions of a Federal Government; but they reserved to themselves the right of ordaining and enforcing the execution of the laws of the Union.†  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835

He was a young, and like herself or Asa, unordained minister or evangelist of, however, far stronger and more effective temperament religiously.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates, and all that could give majesty to the forms in which a new government manifested itself to the people, were, as a matter of policy, marked by a stately and well-conducted ceremonial, and a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Silas was no stranger to pain and felt eager to prove himself to the Teacher, the one who had assured him his actions were ordained by a higher power.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Kenyon resembled neither of his parents physically; his crew-cut hair was hemp-colored, and he was six feet tall and lanky, though hefty enough to have once rescued a pair of full-grown sheep by carrying them two miles through a blizzard-sturdy, strong, but cursed with a lanky boy's lack of muscular co-ordination.†  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

God, who does the work, ordains the instrument.†  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent helm—nigh to the man who was apt to doze over the grave always ready dug to the seaman's hand—that fatal hour was then to come; and in the fore-ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in.†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851