Definition of ordain

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Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.

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Order :: Order (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
Ordainable :: Ordainable (a.) Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..
Providence :: Providence (n.) A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.
Predestinate :: Predestinate (a.) Predestinated; foreordained; fated.
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute..
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
Ordinative :: Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.
Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..
Foreordain :: Foreordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.
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..
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.
Ordainer :: Ordainer (n.) One who ordains.
Coordain :: Coordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.
Establish :: Establish (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain..
Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.
Ordainment :: Ordainment (n.) Ordination.
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