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Ordinant :: Ordinant (n.) One who ordains.

Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..

Establish :: Establish (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain..

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

Destiny :: Destiny (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

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

Order :: Order (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

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

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..

Predestine :: Predestine (v. t.) To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.

Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination..

Settle :: Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister..

Foreordain :: Foreordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.

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..

Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.

Ordained :: Ordained (imp. & p. p.) of Ordai.

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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

Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of..

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