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Ordination : (noun)
1: the status of being ordained to a sacred office
2: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;
"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of
their presentation" [syn: ordering, order]
3: the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving)
holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his
ordination" [syn: ordinance]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Ordination : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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ORDINATION, civil and eccl. law. The act of conferring the orders of the
church upon an individual. Nov. 137.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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