Ordain

To ordain is to make an ordinance, to enact a law. The preamble to the constitution of the United States declares that the people "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." The third article of the same constitution declares that "the judicial power shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish." See 1 Wheat. (U. S.) 304, 324; 4 Wheat. (U. S.) 316, 402.

To make an ordinance, to enact a law. The preamble to the constitution of the United States declares that the people ‘‘do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.” The third article of the same constitution declares that “the judicial power shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” See Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat. (U. S.) 304, 324, 4 L. Ed. 97; Mc- Culloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat (U. S.) 316, priest or deacon. Kibbe v. Antram, 4 Conn. 134. 0 RD AIN E RS. An elected body of 21 members appointed by Parliament in 1310 to make ordinances for the good of the realm. The whole administration passed into their hands. Stubbs, Early Planta genets.

‘To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law.

To ordain, according to the etymology and general use of the term, signifies to appoint, to institute, to clothe with authority. When the word is applied to a clergyman, it means that he has been invested with ministerial functions or sacerdotal power. Ordination, properly speaking, is restrained to the investiture of authority. In the Episcopal Church, the conferring on a person the holy orders of deacon or priest is the invariable mode of ordination. In the Methodist Church, the deacons and priests have conferred on them, by a general ordination, the investment of their ministerial functions, but are never by that act placed over a particular church. Kibbe V. Autram, 4 Conn. 134.