Definition of ordain

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

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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..
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..
Providence :: Providence (n.) A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.
Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute..
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..
Title :: Title (n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside..
Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.
Ordinative :: Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.
Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.
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..
Ordinator :: Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.
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..
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..
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..
Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.
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..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..
Foreordain :: Foreordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
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