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

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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.

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

Predestinator :: Predestinator (n.) One who predestinates, or foreordains..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Title :: Title (n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside..

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

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

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