Ordination

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  • noun. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
  • noun. The ceremony of consecration to the ministry.
  • noun. An arrangement or ordering.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Disposition as in ranks or rows; formal arrangement; array.
  • noun. The act of admitting to holy orders, or to the Christian ministry; the rite of conferring holy orders or investing with ministerial or sacerdotal power and authority.
  • noun. Arrangement of parts so as to form a consistent whole; organization; prearrangement; constitution.
  • noun. Assignment of proper place in an order or series; hence, suitable relation; due proportion.
  • noun. Appointment; enactment; decree; ordinance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
  • noun. The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
  • noun. Disposition; arrangement; order.
  • noun. the angle between the axes of coördinates.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
  • noun. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the status of being ordained to a sacred office
  • noun. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
  • noun. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
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