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Definition of Ordination

1. Noun. The status of being ordained to a sacred office.

2. Noun. Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements. "We shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"

3. Noun. The act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders. "The rabbi's family was present for his ordination"

Definition of Ordination

1. n. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.

Definition of Ordination

1. Noun. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained. ¹

2. Noun. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ordination

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Medical Definition of Ordination

1. 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. The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination, the angle between the axes of coordinates. Origin: L. Ordinatio: cf. F. Ordination. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Ordination

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)
"The form which accompanies the imposition of hands contains the words "Accipe spiritum sanctum ", which in the ordination of priests, however, ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1905)
"A double co-ordination is necessary: (i) that of all the agencies within a local church; and (2) the co-ordination of these with educational agencies ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"shows that in exceptional cases men *«e consecrated bishops without previous ordination to the priesthood. Pissing to the effect of ordination, ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Ordination. This question was in debate from January, 1644, onwards, and in the following April the Directory for Ordination was carried up to the House. ..."

5. European Community by Oecd (1998)
"Aid co-ordination, development strategies and country strategies The mechanisms for aid co-ordination Article 130u of the Maastricht Treaty stipulates that ..."

6. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"Here is evident, not only a promotion, but a new ordination of St. Cornelius to be bishop ... There being a peculiar Manner of Ordination to a Bishoprick. ..."

7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"377, London, 1904), " the ceremony of ordination consists especially of a prayer recited over the candidate in a public and solemn assembly. ..."

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