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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.

Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..

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

Ordaining :: Ordaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ordai.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..

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..

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

Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons..

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

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..

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..

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