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

Providence :: Providence (n.) A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.

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

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

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

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..

Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.

Ordaining :: Ordaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ordai.

Popish :: Popish (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously..

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..

Foreordinate :: Foreordinate (v. t.) To foreordain.

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

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..

Ordainable :: Ordainable (a.) Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.

Predestinate :: Predestinate (a.) Predestinated; foreordained; fated.

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

Acolyte :: Acolyte (n.) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass..

Preordination :: Preordination (n.) The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

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..

Install :: Install (v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president..

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