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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..

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..

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

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

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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.

Preordination :: Preordination (n.) The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

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

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..

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

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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

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..

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