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ORDINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
Example:
the rabbi's family was present for his ordination
Synonyms:
ordinance; ordination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ordination" is a kind of...):
appointment; assignment; designation; naming (the act of putting a person into a non-elective position)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ordination"):
laying on of hands (laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination)
Holonyms ("ordination" is a part of...):
holy order (the sacrament of ordination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
Example:
we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("ordination" is a kind of...):
arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ordination"):
bacteria order (an order of bacteria)
word order (the order of words in a text)
genetic code (the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells)
genome (the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism)
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The status of being ordained to a sacred office
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ordination" is a kind of...):
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
