Definition of ordination

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

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Reordination :: Reordination (n.) A second ordination.
Incoordination :: Incoordination (n.) Want of coordination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action.
Coherency :: Coherency (n.) Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness..
Ordain :: Ordain (v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination..
Dependency :: Dependency (n.) State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
Discipline :: Discipline (v. t.) To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
Clergy :: Clergy (n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church..
Deordination :: Deordination (n.) Disorder; dissoluteness.
Predestination :: Predestination (n.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism..
Subordinative :: Subordination (n.) Place of inferior rank.
Subscription :: Subscription (n.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination..
Disordination :: Disordination (n.) The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion.
Teacher :: Teacher (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination..
Ordination :: Ordination (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc..
Subordinary :: Subordinancy (a.) Subordinacy; subordination.
Cohere :: Cohere (a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent..
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession..
Office :: Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
Insubordination :: Insubordination (n.) The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
Subangular :: Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
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