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Adjudge vs Ordain - What's the difference?

adjudge | ordain | Synonyms |

As verbs the difference between adjudge and ordain

is that adjudge is to declare to be while ordain is to prearrange unalterably.

adjudge

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To declare to be.
  • To deem or determine to be.
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  • , year=2011 , date=December 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.}}
  • To award judicially; to assign.
  • *XIX c. , James Russell Lowell,
  • *:What doth the poor man's son inherit?
  • *:Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
  • *:A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
  • *:Content that from employment springs
  • ordain

    English

    Verb

  • to prearrange unalterably
  • to decree
  • to admit into the ministry of a religion, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk.
  • to authorize as a rabbi
  • to predestine
  • Synonyms

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    See also

    * ordination

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