All 3 Uses

ordination
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Moby Dick
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This man interested me at once; and since the sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate (though but a sleeping-partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned), I will here venture upon a little description of him.†
Chpt 1-3 *

ordained = officially declared a religious leader
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.†
Chpt 52-54

ordaining = officially declaring a religious leader
It so chanced, that after the Parsee's disappearance, I was he whom the Fates ordained to take the place of Ahab's bowsman, when that bowsman assumed the vacant post; the same, who, when on the last day the three men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was dropped astern.†
Chpt Epil.

ordained = officially declared a religious leader

Definitions:

(1) (ordination)
ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader -- such as a minister, priest, or rabbi
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)