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ordination |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ordination \Or`di*na"tion\, n. [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.) 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 co["o]rdinates. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ordination n : the act of ordaining [syn: {ordaining}]
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