ordination
Origin of ordination
Related Words for ordination
investiture, installation, consecration, appointment, coronation, naming, categorization, classification, system, plan, organization, orderExamples from the Web for ordination
Contemporary Examples of ordination
Yet, until now, in the Orthodox movement, ordination has been granted only privately and rather infrequently.
Historical Examples of ordination
Then they had gone back to their places to await the ordination.
The MissionaryGeorge Griffith
There, indeed, lay Clarimonde, even as I had seen her at the church on the day of my ordination.
ClarimondeThophile Gautier
We ought to study adaptation in the selection and ordination of ruling them.
Gathering JewelsJames Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles
His colleague Mr. Gannett was gone to an Ordination at Buffalo.
A Journey to America in 1834Robert Heywood
At the close of the ordination the blessing from the new priest began.
The Art of DisappearingJohn Talbot Smith
ordination
- the act of conferring holy orders
- the reception of holy orders
- the condition of being ordained or regulated
- an arrangement or order
Word Origin and History for ordination
early 15c., "the act of conferring holy orders," from Old French ordinacion (12c.) or directly from Latin ordinationem (nominative ordinatio) "a setting in order, ordinance," noun of action from past participle stem of ordinare "arrange" (see ordain).