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

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..

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..

Reordain :: Reordain (v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective..

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..

Predestine :: Predestine (v. t.) To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.

Predestinator :: Predestinator (n.) One who predestinates, or foreordains..

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

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

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

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.

Providence :: Providence (n.) A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.

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

Ordinability :: Ordinability (n.) Capability of being ordained or appointed.

Order :: Order (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

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..

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

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..

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.

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