Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ordination"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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. --Jer. Taylor.
Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the
happiness and misery of life respectively. --Norris.
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["o]rdinates.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ordination
n : the act of ordaining; "the priest's family was present for
his ordination" [syn: {ordinance}]
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