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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..

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..

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

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..

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

Theodicy :: Theodicy (n.) A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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