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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"
Specialized synonyms: Acolyte, Anagnost, Deacon, Doorkeeper, Ostiarius, Ostiary, Exorcist, Lector, Reader, Priest, Subdeacon
Generic synonyms: Position, Status
2. Noun. The sacrament of ordination.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Order
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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