Thesaurus: ordination

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1. n. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
2. n. The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
3. n. Disposition; arrangement; order.
4. n. the status of being ordained to a sacred office
5. n. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
6. n. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
7. 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 coördinates.
8. The act of setting apart to an office in the Christianministry; the conferring of holy orders.
9. n:100 n. the status of being ordained to a sacred office n. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders