All 5 Uses of
ordination
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I feel as if it were ordained that this man should be associated with all the good which the future may have in store for me, and sometimes it really seems as if his eye was able to see what was to come, and his hand endowed with the power of directing events according to his own will.†
Chpt 57-58ordained = officially declared a religious leader
- So much the worse, or rather, so much the better; it has been so ordained that he may have none to weep his fate.†
Chpt 99-100 *
- One day when I cursed Providence for making me so wicked, and ordaining me to such a fate, my adopted father said to me, 'Do not blaspheme, unhappy child, the crime is that of your father, not yours,—of your father, who consigned you to hell if you died, and to misery if a miracle preserved you alive.'†
Chpt 109-110ordaining = officially declaring a religious leader
- "Maximilian," said the count, "the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.†
Chpt 111-112ordained = officially declared a religious leader
- I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader -- such as a minister, priest, or rabbi