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Ordain vs Predestination - What's the difference?

ordain | predestination |

As a verb ordain

is to prearrange unalterably.

As a noun predestination is

predestination.

ordain

English

Verb

  • to prearrange unalterably
  • to decree
  • to admit into the ministry of a religion, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk.
  • to authorize as a rabbi
  • to predestine
  • Synonyms

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    See also

    * ordination

    Anagrams

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    predestination

    Noun

    (-)
  • (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God, especially that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
  • Destiny or fate.