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

Priest :: Priest (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

Destine :: Destine (v. t.) To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for..

Preordain :: Preordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.

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

Ordinable :: Ordinable (a.) Capable of being ordained or appointed.

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

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

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.

Bishop :: Bishop (n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see..

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

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

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..

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

Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.

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..

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

Ordination :: Ordination (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc..

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

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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