It can mean that in certain situations. It can mean to give power or some office to someone like priesthood or a political office. It can also mean to order something officially, like in a law or instruction. It is in that usage that it could be used to make something official.
Ordain is a verb.
Soon the bishop would ordain his nephew as a priest.
make a decision, make up your mind, choose, determine, conclude, answer, resolve, ordain, adjudicate
Ordain: "I do ordain that from this moment, I am Ruler of the Land"
Soon the bishop would ordain his nephew as a priest.
To ordain something to happen is to order or command it.
No Jesus did not ordain any one. But Peter was to be the rock.
Ancient astrologers believed that the stars could ordain ones future.
We the people of the US of America. . . do ordain and establish this constitution for the US of America
to ordain = hismich (הסמיך), pronounced heess-MEEKH
ordain
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