English words for 'appoint to a clerical posts'
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verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- render holy by means of religious rites
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- dedicate to a deity by a vow
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism, specifically) To ordain as a bishop.
- (transitive) To commit (oneself or one's time) solemnly to some aim or task.
- (transitive) To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.
adj
verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- invest with ministerial or priestly authority
- order by virtue of superior authority; decree
- issue an order
- To predestine.
- To decree.
- (religion) To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
- To prearrange unalterably.
verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- issue commands or orders for
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- bring order to or into
- make a request for something
- place in a certain order
- assign a rank or rating to
- (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
- (transitive) To issue a command to; to charge.
- (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
- To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
- (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
noun
- a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
- established customary state (especially of society)
- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
- a body of rules followed by an assembly
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
- the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
- a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
- a condition of regular or proper arrangement
- (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
- a group of person living under a religious rule
- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
- (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
- (countable) An association of knights.
- (sciences, engineering, logic) Scale: size or scope.
- (order theory) A partially ordered set.
- (algebra, of a monomial) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
- (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
- (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
- (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
- (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- (graph theory, of a graph) The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
- (set theory, of a set or algebraic structure) The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
- A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
- Any group of people with common interests.
- (countable) A command.
- (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- (order theory) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
- (finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
- (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- (group theory, of an element g of a group G) The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
- (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- (algebra, of a polynomial in one variable) The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
- (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
- (transitive, statistics, ecology) To subject to the mathematical operation of ordination.
- (transitive) To align a series of objects.
- (transitive, uncommon) To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop.
noun
- the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
- (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.
- (geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
adj
verb
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- To act to prepare for something.
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To make possible or attainable.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- supply means of subsistence; earn a living
- mount or put up
- give something useful or necessary to
- determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
- take measures in preparation for
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
verb
- administer a pontifical office
- talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
- (intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
- (intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
- (intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
noun
noun
- The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
- The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
- (Christianity) The term of office of a Christian patriarch.
- A patriarchal system or community.
- the jurisdiction of a patriarch
- a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
noun
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
- The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
- The quality of being obedient.
- A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
- the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
- behavior intended to please your parents
- the trait of being willing to obey
noun
- A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
- A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
- The senior member of some group of people.
- (Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
- a man who is the senior member of a group
- (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals
- an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
verb
noun
- a person appointed to a high office in the government
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- the job of a head of a government department
- (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- (government) A politician who heads a ministry
- In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
- A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
- (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
verb
noun
- the status of being ordained to a sacred office
- the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
- (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
- (Buddhism) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
- (statistics, ecology) A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.
- The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
adj
- appointed by nomination
- serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
- Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
- Giving a name; naming; designating.
- (grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
noun
noun
- The office, authority, or district held by a person as deputy for a bishop, or similar ecclesiastical authority.
- The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular political leader.
- (Christianity) The office, authority, or district of a vicar.
- the religious institution under the authority of a vicar
adj
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- (Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as the truth or canon.
- Of or about an office or public trust.
- Discharging an office or function.
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or the appropriate authority; made or communicated by authority
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- (informal) True, real, beyond doubt.
- Relating to an office, especially a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- (pharmacology) Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
- (pharmacology) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
- verified officially
- of or relating to an office
- having official authority or sanction
- conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
- (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
noun
verb
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- To enter (something), making it full.
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
noun
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- The filling of a container or area.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
noun
- the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet
- a person who is a member of the cabinet
- (politics) A member of the executive branch of a government who has been appointed to the cabinet, the group of leading policy makers, advisers, and overseers of governmental departments who report to the prime minister.
noun
- A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
- An advocate of pluralism (in all senses)
- a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
- someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
- a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
adj
noun
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
verb
- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
noun
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
noun
- A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve seat administrative council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- (law) A note sent to an appeals court presenting the appeal in summary.
- A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).
- (law) A letter dismissory.
- A pioneer or early advocate of a particular cause, prophet of a belief.
- (law) The trial court record sent to an appeal court concerning an appeal.
- an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform
noun
- The office or position of elder in a church.
- The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
- The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
- (nonce word, as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.
- the office of elder
noun
- a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
- port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
- (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
- (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
verb
- (Christianity) To make a bishop.
- (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
- (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
noun
- An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
- any of various church officers
- (US, Mormonism) A male missionary.
- (relational, chiefly in the plural, chiefly with possessive determiners) One who is older than another.
- A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.
- One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
- A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.
- (now chiefly US) An old person.
- (Mormonism, often capitalized) Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.
- A leader or senior member of a tribe or community, often of considerable age, respected as an authority figure, especially in a counselling, consultative, or ceremonial role.
- (Germanic paganism) A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.
- (US, Mormonism) One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white and yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).
- A cow's udder, especially used as food.
- a person who is older than you are
- any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- (idiomatic) An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position
- (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
- a session as of a legislature or court
- a meeting of spiritualists
verb
noun
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
intj
verb
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
noun
- In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
noun
verb
noun
- The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
- The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
- (in the plural) Equipment, furniture.
- (law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
- Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
- (government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
- (US) An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
- An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
- (religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
- (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
- the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed
- a meeting arranged in advance
- a person who is appointed to a job or position
- (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
noun
- In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
- (Commonwealth, law enforcement) A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
- The head of a Sunday school.
- The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same.
- A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- (chiefly US) A janitor.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- a person who directs and manages an organization
adj
noun
- The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
- The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
- (Christianity) The term of office of a Christian patriarch.
- A patriarchal system or community.
- the jurisdiction of a patriarch
- a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
noun
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
- The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
- The quality of being obedient.
- A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
- the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
- behavior intended to please your parents
- the trait of being willing to obey
noun
- A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
- A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
- The senior member of some group of people.
- (Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
- a man who is the senior member of a group
- (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals
- an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
verb
noun
- a person appointed to a high office in the government
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- the job of a head of a government department
- (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- (government) A politician who heads a ministry
- In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
- A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
- (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
verb
noun
- the status of being ordained to a sacred office
- the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
- (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
- (Buddhism) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
- (statistics, ecology) A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.
- The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
noun
- The office, authority, or district held by a person as deputy for a bishop, or similar ecclesiastical authority.
- The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular political leader.
- (Christianity) The office, authority, or district of a vicar.
- the religious institution under the authority of a vicar
noun
- the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet
- a person who is a member of the cabinet
- (politics) A member of the executive branch of a government who has been appointed to the cabinet, the group of leading policy makers, advisers, and overseers of governmental departments who report to the prime minister.
noun
- A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
- An advocate of pluralism (in all senses)
- a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
- someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
- a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
adj
noun
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
verb
- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
noun
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
noun
- A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve seat administrative council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- (law) A note sent to an appeals court presenting the appeal in summary.
- A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).
- (law) A letter dismissory.
- A pioneer or early advocate of a particular cause, prophet of a belief.
- (law) The trial court record sent to an appeal court concerning an appeal.
- an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform
noun
- The office or position of elder in a church.
- The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
- The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
- (nonce word, as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.
- the office of elder
noun
- a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
- port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
- (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
- (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
verb
- (Christianity) To make a bishop.
- (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
- (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
noun
- An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
- any of various church officers
- (US, Mormonism) A male missionary.
- (relational, chiefly in the plural, chiefly with possessive determiners) One who is older than another.
- A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.
- One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
- A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.
- (now chiefly US) An old person.
- (Mormonism, often capitalized) Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.
- A leader or senior member of a tribe or community, often of considerable age, respected as an authority figure, especially in a counselling, consultative, or ceremonial role.
- (Germanic paganism) A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.
- (US, Mormonism) One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white and yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).
- A cow's udder, especially used as food.
- a person who is older than you are
- any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
adj
verb
noun
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
intj
verb
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
noun
- In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
noun
verb
noun
- The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
- The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
- (in the plural) Equipment, furniture.
- (law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
- Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
- (government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
- (US) An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
- An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
- (religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
- (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
- the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed
- a meeting arranged in advance
- a person who is appointed to a job or position
- (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
noun
- In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
- (Commonwealth, law enforcement) A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
- The head of a Sunday school.
- The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same.
- A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- (chiefly US) A janitor.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- a person who directs and manages an organization
adj
verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- render holy by means of religious rites
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- dedicate to a deity by a vow
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism, specifically) To ordain as a bishop.
- (transitive) To commit (oneself or one's time) solemnly to some aim or task.
- (transitive) To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.
adj
verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- invest with ministerial or priestly authority
- order by virtue of superior authority; decree
- issue an order
- To predestine.
- To decree.
- (religion) To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
- To prearrange unalterably.
verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- issue commands or orders for
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- bring order to or into
- make a request for something
- place in a certain order
- assign a rank or rating to
- (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
- (transitive) To issue a command to; to charge.
- (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
- To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
- (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
noun
- a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
- established customary state (especially of society)
- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
- a body of rules followed by an assembly
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
- the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
- a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
- a condition of regular or proper arrangement
- (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
- a group of person living under a religious rule
- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
- (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
- (countable) An association of knights.
- (sciences, engineering, logic) Scale: size or scope.
- (order theory) A partially ordered set.
- (algebra, of a monomial) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
- (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
- (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
- (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
- (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- (graph theory, of a graph) The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
- (set theory, of a set or algebraic structure) The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
- A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
- Any group of people with common interests.
- (countable) A command.
- (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- (order theory) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
- (finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
- (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- (group theory, of an element g of a group G) The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
- (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- (algebra, of a polynomial in one variable) The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
- (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
verb
- appoint to a clerical posts
- bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
- (transitive, statistics, ecology) To subject to the mathematical operation of ordination.
- (transitive) To align a series of objects.
- (transitive, uncommon) To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop.
noun
- the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
- (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.
- (geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
adj
verb
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- To act to prepare for something.
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To make possible or attainable.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- supply means of subsistence; earn a living
- mount or put up
- give something useful or necessary to
- determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
- take measures in preparation for
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
verb
- administer a pontifical office
- talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
- (intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
- (intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
- (intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
noun
verb
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- To enter (something), making it full.
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
noun
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- The filling of a container or area.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
noun
- a person appointed to a high office in the government
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- the job of a head of a government department
- (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- (government) A politician who heads a ministry
- In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
- A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
- (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
verb
adj
- appointed by nomination
- serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
- Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
- Giving a name; naming; designating.
- (grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
noun
adj
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- (Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as the truth or canon.
- Of or about an office or public trust.
- Discharging an office or function.
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or the appropriate authority; made or communicated by authority
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- (informal) True, real, beyond doubt.
- Relating to an office, especially a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- (pharmacology) Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
- (pharmacology) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
- verified officially
- of or relating to an office
- having official authority or sanction
- conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
- (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
noun
adj
noun
- A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- (idiomatic) An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position
- (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
- a session as of a legislature or court
- a meeting of spiritualists