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Foreordinate :: Foreordinate (v. t.) To foreordain.

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

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..

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

Install :: Install (v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president..

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

Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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

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

Popish :: Popish (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously..

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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..

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

Predestinate :: Predestinate (a.) Predestinated; foreordained; fated.

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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