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Ordination
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What's The Definition Of Ordination?
[n] the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"
[n] logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" [n] the status of being ordained to a sacred office Synonyms | Synonyms for Ordination: order | ordering | ordinance Related Terms | Find terms related to Ordination: acceptance | adjustment | admission | admittance | apostolic orders | appointment | assignment | baptism | calling | canonization | charting | codification | commitment | conferment | consecration | coordination | dedication | designation | devotion | election | enlistment | enrollment | hallowing | harmonization | holy orders | immission | inauguration | induction | initiation | installation | instatement | institution | intromission | investiture | major orders | methodization | minor orders | naming | nomination | normalization | ordainment | orders | organization | planning | posting | preferment | presentation | rationalization | reading in | regularization | regulation | routinization | selection | systematization | tabbing | transferral See Also | appointment | arrangement | assignment | bacteria order | designation | genetic code | holy orders | laying on of hands | naming | position | series | status | word order Ordination In Webster's Dictionary \Or`di*na"tion\, n. [L. ordinatio: cf. F.
ordination.]
1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the
state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
The holy and wise ordination of God. --Jer. Taylor.
Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the
happiness and misery of life respectively. --Norris.
2. (Eccl.) The act of setting apart to an office in the
Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.]
{Angle of ordination} (Geom.), the angle between the axes of
co["o]rdinates.
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