ordination, ordinance
(noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; “the rabbi’s family was present for his ordination”
ordering, order, ordination
(noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; “we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation”
ordination
(noun) the status of being ordained to a sacred office
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ordination (countable and uncountable, plural ordinations)
The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
(Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Source: Wiktionary
Or`di*na"tion, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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 coördinates.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 November 2024
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
