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

Ordainment :: Ordainment (n.) Ordination.

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..

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

Acolyte :: Acolyte (n.) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass..

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.

Friend :: Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers..

Clergyman :: Clergyman (n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church..

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

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

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

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

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..

Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.

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

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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..

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..

Preordain :: Preordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.

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

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