Associations to the word «Ordination»

Wiktionary

ORDINATION, noun. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
ORDINATION, noun. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated.

Dictionary definition

ORDINATION, noun. The status of being ordained to a sacred office.
ORDINATION, noun. Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation".
ORDINATION, noun. The act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope