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Posse Comitatus founder William Potter Gale was a self-ordained minister who called on sheriffs to supersede federal agencies and serve as quasi-vigilantes, primarily to resist school desegregation.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2023

Cinema spoof British-style keeps searching farther and wider for ideas, and audiences have only to consult the credits for proof: this film was based on a conceit of that self-ordained iconoclast, Malcolm Muggeridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of late, however, the self-ordained "rock-'n'-roll animal" has spruced up considerably, put on some weight and diminished his waning-moon pallor.

From Time Magazine Archive

And thou, whose heaven self-ordained Was, to enjoy earth unrestrained, Do it!

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy; or, we may rather say, the world's heavy hand had so ordained her, when neither the world nor she looked forward to this result.

From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock