ordination
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- noun
- /ˌɔrdɪˈneɪʃən/
- Formal
:
ordenación
- During the ordination service, the bishop laid hands on the new priest to bless him.
- ordination rite
- ordination of women
- priestly ordination
Examples
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Here we have clear and strong opposition to the priestly ordination of women.
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All these prayers, studies, and humiliations eventually led to the altar and ordination to the priesthood in 1956.
Academic text (2008) -
In the first dozen years or so after ordination, things went relatively well.
Fiction book (1994) -
At last, Ordination to the Ministry of the Word has its turn at center stage.
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The Church will not endorse you for ordination.
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In seeking ordination, I had stepped out of "my place" within the denomination and the community.
Academic text (1998) -
Then I got ordination from the United Methodist Church as a Deacon.
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John is encouraging a certain Basil to accept ordination as a bishop by explaining what a noble task it is.
Academic text (1997) -
If they had their faults, they also had the sacred power, by virtue of their ordination, to perform those sacraments.
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The resolution declares homosexual activity to be "incompatible with Scripture" and advises against the ordination of homosexuals.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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A formal event where people meet to show shared beliefs with prayers and rituals
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8.7
To make a place or object sacred in a special religious ceremony
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A religious ceremony that makes someone a priest or minister
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A formal ceremony that gives someone an official position, rank or honor with symbols like a badge
An official religious ceremony that makes someone a priest or minister
Compounds
- Offensive
A website or group that sells fake religious certificates quickly for money
How Ceremonial
- Formal
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9.3
- Formal
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8.7
- Formal
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- Formal
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4.1
- Formal
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2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ordination also names the ceremony that makes someone a priest; this use comes from the same Latin ordinare 'to put in order' and ordo 'order'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the ceremony as placing a person into a church 'order' or 'rank', so ordination is the act of officially giving them that role.