ordain

verb

1. 1

   issue an order

2. 2

   appoint to a clerical posts

   he was ordained in the Church

3. 3

   invest with ministerial or priestly authority

   The minister was ordained only last month

4. 4

   order by virtue of superior authority; decree

   The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews

   the legislature enacted this law in 1985