Definition of ordain

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

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Ordainer :: Ordainer (n.) One who ordains.
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
Institutor :: Institutor (n.) One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes..
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..
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
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..
Theodicy :: Theodicy (n.) A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.
Ordinator :: Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.
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.
Ordainment :: Ordainment (n.) Ordination.
Predestinator :: Predestinator (n.) One who predestinates, or foreordains..
Ordained :: Ordained (imp. & p. p.) of Ordai.
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..
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..
Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.
Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons..
Preorder :: Preorder (v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.
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..
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