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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ORDINA'TION, n. [L. ordinatio.]
1. The state of being ordained or appointed; established order or tendency consequent on a decree.
Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.
2. The act of conferring holy orders or sacerdotal power; called also consecration.
3. In the presbyterian and congregational churches, the act of settling or establishing a licensed cleryman over a church and congregation with pastoral charge and authority; also, the act of conferring on a clergyman the powers of a settled minister of the gospel, without the charge or oversight of a particular church, but with the general powers of an evangelist, who is authorized to form churches and administer the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper, wherever he may be called to officiate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the status of being ordained to a sacred office
2: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" [syn: ordering, order, ordination]
3: the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination" [syn: ordination, ordinance]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century the act or an instance of ordaining ; the state of being ordained

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the act of conferring holy orders esp. on a priest or deacon. b the admission of a priest etc. to church ministry. 2 the arrangement of things etc. in ranks; classification. 3 the act of decreeing or ordaining. Etymology: ME f. OF ordination or L ordinatio (as ORDAIN)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ordinations) When someone's ordination takes place, they are made a member of the clergy. ...supporters of the ordination of women. N-VAR

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

or-di-na'-shun.

See ORDAIN, ORDINATION.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Consecration, induction, institution. 2. Tendency, foreordination.

Moby Thesaurus

acceptance, adjustment, admission, admittance, apostolic orders, appointment, assignment, baptism, calling, canonization, charting, codification, commitment, conferment, consecration, coordination, dedication, designation, devotion, election, enlistment, enrollment, hallowing, harmonization, holy orders, immission, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, instatement, institution, intromission, investiture, major orders, methodization, minor orders, naming, nomination, normalization, ordainment, orders, organization, planning, posting, preferment, presentation, rationalization, reading in, regularization, regulation, routinization, selection, systematization, tabbing, transferral