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

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..

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..

Priest :: Priest (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

Ordinand :: Ordinand (n.) One about to be ordained.

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

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

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

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

Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.

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

Ordainable :: Ordainable (a.) Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.

Appoint :: Appoint (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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