ordination : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ordination	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ordination
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ordination n the status of being ordained to a sacred office logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" Synonym(s): ordering, order, ordination the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination" Synonym(s): ordination, ordinance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ordination \Or`dina"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[94]rdinates.