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Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.

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

Ordinator :: Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.

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

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

Will :: Will (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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

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

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

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..

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

Title :: Title (n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside..

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..

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

Gremial :: Gremial (n.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests..

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..

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..

Destiny :: Destiny (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

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

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