English Explanatory Dictionary

ordination

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
  2. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
  3. the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
  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.

Pronunciation

/ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ordination.wav /ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/ /ˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃn̩/ /ˌoːdəˈnæɪʃn̩/

Word forms

ordination ordinations

Etymology

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

Synonyms

gradient analysis

Derived words

co-ordination misordination nonordination ordination hall ordination mill self-ordination

Translations

Arabic: رِسامة Bulgarian: ръкополагане Czech: svěcení French: ordination Greek: χειροτονία Indonesian: penahbisan Latin: teleta Māori: whakapirititanga Māori: whakaminitatanga Norwegian Bokmål: ordinasjon Norwegian Nynorsk: ordinasjon Old English: hādung Polish: święcenia Portuguese: ordenação Russian: рукоположе́ние Spanish: ordenación Swedish: prästvigning Tagalog: ordenasyon Ukrainian: висвя́чення
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