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verborder by virtue of superior authority; decree
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verbappoint to a clerical posts
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verbinvest with ministerial or priestly authority
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Definition that contains ordain
- will decree or ordain
- reader someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- priesthood the body of ordained religious practitioners
- ordinance the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
- ordination the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
- ordination the status of being ordained to a sacred office
- predestination (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
- acolyte someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
- quakerism the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry
- predetermination (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)