n. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
n. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Disposition as in ranks or rows; formal arrangement; array.
n. The act of admitting to holy orders, or to the Christian ministry; the rite of conferring holy orders or investing with ministerial or sacerdotal power and authority.
n. Arrangement of parts so as to form a consistent whole; organization; prearrangement; constitution.
n. Assignment of proper place in an order or series; hence, suitable relation; due proportion.
n. Appointment; enactment; decree; ordinance.
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n. the status of being ordained to a sacred office
n. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
n. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
Word Usage
"But, in a real sense, women's ordination is indeed a justice issue: to support it is an injustice and an offense to truth, the Gospel, the Magisterium, the Church, the priesthood, and the great high priest, Jesus Christ."