ordination
The act of ordaining or the state of being ordainedThe act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
(countable, uncountable)The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
(countable, uncountable)The ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
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(countable, uncountable)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.
Coordinate term: cluster analysis
Translations
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Origin
From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.
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Forms
plural: ordinations| Singular | ordination |
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Synonyms
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5 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable