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1. The status of being ordained to a sacred office
    
2. Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
   - ordering, order
    
3. The act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
   "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination";
   - ordinance

Derived forms: ordinations

Type of: appointment, arrangement, assignment, designation, naming, position, status

Part of: holy order

Encyclopedia: Ordination