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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ordination \Or'di*na"tion\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
ordination
noun
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}]
3: the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination" [syn: {ordinance}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "ordination": 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
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