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Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..

Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..

Reordain :: Reordain (v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective..

Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

Arbiter :: Arbiter (n.) Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited..

Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..

Ordinative :: Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

Clergyman :: Clergyman (n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church..

Installation :: Installation (n.) The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish..

Ordainment :: Ordainment (n.) Ordination.

Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute..

Friend :: Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers..

Gremial :: Gremial (n.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests..

Theodicy :: Theodicy (n.) A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

Appoint :: Appoint (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

Ordinator :: Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.

Ordinability :: Ordinability (n.) Capability of being ordained or appointed.

Will :: Will (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.

Preorder :: Preorder (v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.

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