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Reordination :: Reordination (n.) A second ordination.

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..

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

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

Probation :: Probation (n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor..

Dependency :: Dependency (n.) State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

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

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..

System :: System (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military sys

Coordinative :: Coordinative (a.) Expressing coordination.

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

Preordination :: Preordination (n.) The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

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..

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

Office :: Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.

Predestination :: Predestination (n.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism..

Foreordination :: Foreordination (n.) Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

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..

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..

Misordination :: Misordination (n.) Wrong ordination.

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