Fixed or established especially by order or command.

synonyms: appointed, decreed, prescribed.

Roget 924: having a right to etc. v.; entitled to; claiming; deserving, meriting, worthy of.    privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised.    prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible^†, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct.    due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.    allowable etc. (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal; legalized etc. (law) 963.    square, unexceptionable, right; equitable etc. 922; due, en r gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles [Fr.].    ... show more

Roget 996: the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend; ordained, in orders, called to the ministry.   

Invested with ministerial or priestly functions.