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

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

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

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..

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

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

Theodicy :: Theodicy (n.) A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Settle :: Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister..

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

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

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..

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

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