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

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

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

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..

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

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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..

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

Ordinator :: Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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