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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Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..
Priest :: Priest (v. t.) To ordain as priest.
Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.
Appoint :: Appoint (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Establish :: Establish (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain..
Ordination :: Ordination (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc..
Ordinative :: Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.
Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
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 determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property..
Ordinator :: Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.
Predestinate :: Predestinate (a.) Predestinated; foreordained; fated.
Ordinable :: Ordinable (a.) Capable of being ordained or appointed.
Foreordain :: Foreordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..
Ordaining :: Ordaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ordai.
Ordained :: Ordained (imp. & p. p.) of Ordai.
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..
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..
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