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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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Coordain :: Coordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

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

Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of..

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

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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

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

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

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