Clues for the word "ORDAIN"
We've had 73 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 139 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on November 07, 2025.
Definition of ordain
- v. t. - To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
- v. t. - To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
- v. t. - To set apart for an office; to appoint.
- v. t. - To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
Referring Clues
- Appoint
- Decree
- Make a father of
- Make a father
- Frock
- Consecrate to office
- Confer holy orders on
- Take into the priesthood
- Consecrate
- Make a minister of
- Confer holy orders upon
- Put a collar on?
- Admit to the clergy
- Destine
- Predestine
- Establish by law
- Give priestly authority to
- Invest with sacerdotal responsibilities
- Establish by decree
- Admit to the priesthood
- Authorize, as a priest
- Give holy orders to
- Invest officially
- Enact
- Make a minister
- Install, as a minister
- Invest with authority
- Predetermine
- Officially make
- Entitle to wear vestments
- Sanctify
- Priestify
- Transition to fatherhood
- Confirm a minister
- Install as a minister
- Make a priest
- Decree in road construction
- Will ring road join road north?
- Invest with ministerial authority
- Make a priest or old monk take one in
- Decree otherwise and I fall out with
- Arrange programme with Norway radio
- Lay down (law)
- Appoint as priest
- Decree there must be a hole, to drain off
- Determine on carrying a raid out
- Determine there's a possible raid on the outskirts
- Consecrate a Rodin sculpture
- Confer gold on reported victor of 29
- Admit to holy orders
- Decree kingdom with no capital is to adopt Italy's
- Road detour in order?
- Road rerouted in order
- Turned radio on electrician's last order
- Road works in order
- Roadworks in order
- Confer holy orders on alternative Scandinavian, say
- Declare Rodin a lunatic
- Decree the road must be repaired in
- Other ranks row about a decree
- Road builder in command
- Rule that it's gold and I prove to be wrong
- Take the ring-road in: a new decree
- Decree from nation's leader after radio broadcast
- Determine that the hole I darn will be well stitched up
- Install, as a cleric
- Make official
- Rule on, when carrying the raid out
- Appoint to reorganise Noraid
- Make a priest, say
- Certify to perform a marriage
- Appoint, as a rabbi
- Invest with priestly authority
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - November 07, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- LA Times - July 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 12, 2025
- LA Times - June 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 17, 2025
- New York Times - March 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 12, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 29, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 14, 2024
- LA Times - January 22, 2024
- LA Times - December 10, 2023
- LA Times - November 14, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - November 07, 2023
- Daily American - July 30, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 12, 2023
- USA Today - June 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 16, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - November 07, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 18, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 03, 2022
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