ordination

[or·di·na·tion]

What an inauguration is to a president, an ordination is to a religious authority. It's the ceremony of bestowing a person with a position of religious authority as when someone becomes a priest, minister, or shaman.

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

Noun
the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi''s family was present for his ordination"

Noun
logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"

Noun
the status of being ordained to a sacred office

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

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

n.
Disposition; arrangement; order.

Ordination

Or`di*na"tion , n. [L. ordinatio: cf. F. ordination.] 1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.

The holy and wise ordination of God.

Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.

2. (Eccl.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of co'94rdinates.

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

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Usage Examples

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

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Other Usage Examples

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.