ordain

To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on.

To authorize as a rabbi.

To order or decree by virtue of superior authority.

To prearrange unalterably; predestine.

To set or place in proper order; arrange; prepare; make ready; hence, to construct or constitute with a view to a certain end.

To set up; establish; institute; appoint: order.

To dispose or regulate according to will or purpose; prescribe; give orders or directions for; command; enact; decree: used especially of the decrees of Providence or of fate; hence, to destine.

To set apart for an office; select; appoint.

To destine, set apart, etc., to a certain spiritual condition, or to the fulfilment of a certain providential purpose: especially in Biblical usage.