ordination
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun edit
ordination (countable and uncountable, plural ordinations)
- The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
- (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
- (Buddhism) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
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Translations edit
act of ordaining
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ceremony
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
ordination f (plural ordinations)
Further reading edit
- “ordination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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