Nominate vs Ordain - What's the difference?
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To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
(obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
* 1658': the City of ''Norwich'' [...] was enlarged, builded and '''nominated by the ''Saxons''. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 12)
(zoology) nominotypical
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
Nominate is a related term of ordain.
As verbs the difference between nominate and ordain
is that nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office while ordain is to prearrange unalterably.As an adjective nominate
is (zoology) nominotypical.nominate
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Verb
(nominat)Synonyms
* (l)Adjective
(-)- the nominate subspecies