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Call :: Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church..

Ecclesiastic :: Ecclesiastic (n.) A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest..

Ministry :: Ministry (n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession..

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..

Order :: Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry..

Ministry :: Ministry (n.) The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body..

Vocation :: Vocation (n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry..

Ministryship :: Ministryship (n.) The office of a minister.

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

Ministerial :: Ministerial (a.) Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.

Ministery :: Ministery (n.) See Ministry.

Ordination :: Ordination (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.

Examination :: Examination (n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry..

Ministerial :: Ministerial (a.) Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal..

Ministry :: Ministry (n.) Agency; instrumentality.

Synosteology :: Synoptist (n.) Any one of the authors of the three synoptic Gospels, which give a history of our Lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings..

Ministry :: Ministry (n.) The act of ministering; ministration; service.

Underministry :: Underministry (n.) A subordinate or inferior ministry.

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..

Deaconship :: Deaconship (n.) The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

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