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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Office :: Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
Dependency :: Dependency (n.) State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
Unity :: Unity (n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition..
Inordination :: Inordination (n.) Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy..
Coordination :: Coordination (n.) The state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc..
Ordination :: Ordination (n.) Disposition; arrangement; order.
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..
Subordinative :: Subordination (n.) Place of inferior rank.
Subordination :: Subordination (n.) The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting..
Reordain :: Reordain (v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective..
Misrule :: Misrule (n.) Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
Presbyterian :: Presbyterian (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.
Probation :: Probation (n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor..
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..
Reordination :: Reordination (n.) A second ordination.
Meniere''s Disease :: Meniere's disease () A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoordination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Meniere, a French physician..
Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination..
Incoordination :: Incoordination (n.) Want of coordination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action.
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..
Systematical :: Systematical (a.) Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study..
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