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ordination.

The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/Received-Pronunciation/ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/Canada, General-American/ˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃn̩/Australia/ˌoːdəˈnæɪʃn̩/New-Zealand
  1. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.

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  2. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

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  3. the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha

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  4. 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.

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Where this word comes from

From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.

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