Definition of ordination

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

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Subordination :: Subordination (n.) The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting..
Subordinative :: Subordination (n.) Place of inferior rank.
Reordain :: Reordain (v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective..
Subordinary :: Subordinancy (a.) Subordinacy; subordination.
Systematical :: Systematical (a.) Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study..
System :: System (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military sys
Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination..
Teacher :: Teacher (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination..
Subordinance :: Subordinacy (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason..
Superoxide :: Superordination (n.) The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor..
Subangular :: Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
Predestination :: Predestination (n.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism..
Probation :: Probation (n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor..
Misordination :: Misordination (n.) Wrong ordination.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor..
Incoordination :: Incoordination (n.) Want of coordination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action.
Under :: Under (prep.) Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the
Preordination :: Preordination (n.) The act of foreordaining: previous determination.
Coordination :: Coordination (n.) The state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc..
Disordination :: Disordination (n.) The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion.
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