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ordain
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Definition:1. to enact or establish by law, edict, etc.2. to order or command3. to predestine
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After ordainment, Americans from consenting states would indeed “form a more perfect Union” that prohibited unilateral exit. Thus, the establishment of “this Constitution” was not just the world’s most democratic moment, but also, in a manner of speaking, the world’s largest corporate merger.
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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a lucky accident had ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the very fields where the French had now to be fought;
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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“How I knew it would be so! I never hoped for it; and yet in my heart I was always sure,” he said. “I believe that it was ordained.”
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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Here were many men, and countless dogs, and Buck found them all at work. It seemed the ordained order of things that dogs should work.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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