To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
To assert that something is not true.
To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
To disallow or reject.
To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
To prevent from scoring.
To decree.
To prearrange unalterably.
To predestine.
To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.