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

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..

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

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.

Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Ordinative :: Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute..

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