Constitute vs Ordain - What's the difference?
constitute | ordain | Related terms |
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
* Jeremy Taylor
To make up; to compose; to form.
* Johnson
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
* William Wordsworth
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
Constitute is a related term of ordain.
As verbs the difference between constitute and ordain
is that constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact while ordain is to prearrange unalterably.As a noun constitute
is (obsolete) an established law.constitute
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(constitut)- Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
- Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
- Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.
