ordain

ordain someone

(as) something

1. Lit. to establish someone as a priest or minister. In a lovely ceremony, they ordained David as a priest. He was ordained as a priest by a bishop.

2. Fig. to establish someone as something. They ordained the poor old man as a deputy sheriff. Was he duly ordained as a Mercedes mechanic?

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bird	[bə:d]
Sotiris	-	Greek
Hughes	[hju:z]
Voitsekh	-	Medieval Slavic
Sigvard	-	Swedish
Leopold	LE-o-pawlt (German), LAY-o-pawlt (Dutch), LEE-ə-pold (English), le-AW-pawlt (Polish)	German, Dutch, English, Slovene, Polish