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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..

Superoxide :: Superordination (n.) The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor..

Chrism :: Chrism (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc..

Subordinary :: Subordinancy (a.) Subordinacy; subordination.

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..

Reordain :: Reordain (v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective..

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

Deordination :: Deordination (n.) Disorder; dissoluteness.

Subserve :: Subserve (v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

Teacher :: Teacher (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination..

Subordinance :: Subordinacy (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason..

Inordination :: Inordination (n.) Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy..

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..

Ordination :: Ordination (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.

Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc..

Subangular :: Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.

Suborned :: Subordinative (a.) Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction..

Heteronomy :: Heteronomy (n.) Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

Subordination :: Subordination (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

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