Definition of Holy order

1. Noun. (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy. "Theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"

Exact synonyms: Order
Specialized synonyms: Acolyte, Anagnost, Deacon, Doorkeeper, Ostiarius, Ostiary, Exorcist, Lector, Reader, Priest, Subdeacon
Generic synonyms: Position, Status

2. Noun. The sacrament of ordination.
Terms within: Ordinance, Ordination
Generic synonyms: Sacrament

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Order

holy day
holy day of obligation
holy family
holy grails
holy guacamole
holy hour
holy kamoley
holy kamoly
holy mackerel
holy man
holy moley
holy moly
holy of holies
holy oil
holy order (current term)
holy orders
holy person
holy place
holy smoke
holy terror
holy thistle
holy war
holy wars
holy water
holy water sprinkler
holy waters
holydam
holydame

Literary usage of Holy order

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
""An Account of the words spoken by Mr. Charlee Ma- hony, on Irish Priest of the holy order of St. Francis, who was Executed in his Habit ai Ruthin in North ..."

2. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"In this is the holy order in love and peace. So keep in ' this, that keeps you always pure ; what men and women act in this, they ' act in that which will ..."

3. The Monthly Reviewby Ralph Griffiths by Ralph Griffiths (1786)
"Taker holy order] — — xix. 46 , JPm. Made clerk of all the king's worki xix. 4; — Chancellor of England — — xix. ..."

4. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1900)
"We have therefore summoned to our 80 "Reverend and valiant men, Knights, Preceptors, and Companions of this holy order, my brethren and my children I— you ..."

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