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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..

Foreordinate :: Foreordinate (v. t.) To foreordain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coordain :: Coordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

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

Preorder :: Preorder (v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.

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..

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..

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..

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..

Ordination :: Ordination (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc..

Ordinability :: Ordinability (n.) Capability of being 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..

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