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noun
The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
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noun
the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
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noun
A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, ecology, mathematics, natural-sciences, sciences, statistics
Synonyms: gradient analysis
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noun
the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ordinance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appointment, assignment, designation, naming
Narrower terms: laying on of hands
noun
logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ordering, order
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arrangement
Narrower terms: bacteria order, word order, genetic code, genome, series
noun
the status of being ordained to a sacred office
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: status, position
History
From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.
Across languages
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