Depute vs Ordain - What's the difference?
depute | ordain | Related terms |
(obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 229:
To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
* Bible 2. Sam. xv. 3
* Macaulay
To appoint; to assign; to choose.
* Barrow
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
As verbs the difference between depute and ordain
is that depute is to assign (someone or something) to or for something while ordain is to prearrange unalterably.As a noun depute
is deputy.depute
English
Verb
(deput)- Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.
- There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
- Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
- The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.