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

Appoint :: Appoint (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To ordain by fate.

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

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

Title :: Title (n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside..

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..

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

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

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

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

Priest :: Priest (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

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..

Preordinate :: Preordinate (a.) Preordained.

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

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..

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..

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..

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property..

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

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