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

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

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

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

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

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

Foreordain :: Foreordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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..

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

Ordinator :: Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.

Ordinand :: Ordinand (n.) One about to be ordained.

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

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

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