different between dictate vs ordain

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dict?tus, perfect passive participle of dict? (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of d?c? (“say, speak”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?te?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?k?te?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?k?te?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

dictate (plural dictates)

1. An order or command.

   I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

Translations

Verb

dictate (third-person singular simple present dictates, present participle dictating, simple past and past participle dictated)

1. To order, command, control.
   • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press ?ISBN, page 409,

     Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.

2. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

3. To determine or decisively affect.

Derived terms

• dictation
• dictator

Translations

See also

• diktat

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dik?ta?.te/, [d??k?t?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dik?ta.te/, [d?ik?t???t??]

Participle

dict?te

1. vocative masculine singular of dict?tus

Verb

dict?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dict?

English

Etymology

From Middle English ordeynen, from Old French ordiner, from Latin ordinare (“to order”), from ordo (“order”). Doublet of ordinate.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???de?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???de?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: or?dain

Verb

ordain (third-person singular simple present ordains, present participle ordaining, simple past and past participle ordained)

1. To prearrange unalterably.
2. To decree.
3. (religion) To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
4. To predestine.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• foresay

Derived terms

• ordainment
• preordain

Related terms

• order

Translations

See also

• ordination

Further reading

• ordain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ordain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ordain at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Ardoin, Dorian, NORAID, Orinda, Rodina, donair, draino, inroad, radion, ranoid