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Definition of ordination in English: ordinationnoun ɔːdɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌɔrdnˈeɪʃ(ə)n mass noun1The action of ordaining someone in holy orders. 授圣职 Example sentencesExamples - The church retains the right to deny ordination to people on many grounds: age, marital history, financial history, criminal history, psychiatric history, and so on.
- Ministry does not begin at ordination, but at baptism.
- One of the things I most look forward to, if the Lord wills, is attending my son Jeremy's ordination to the ministry.
- I refer specifically to the Eastern tradition of requiring men to be married before they are ordained and prohibiting marriage after ordination.
- Infidelity to one's vows is sinful; infidelity to the grace and character of sacred ordination to the priesthood is sinful; sexual abuse in whatever form is sinful.
- Redwoods Presbytery voted 90-37 to approve Morrison's ordination and installation as a field director for More Light Presbyterians.
- The nature of each is spelled out in baptism and ordination.
- Encouraged by his mother and her great friend, John Donne, he accepted ordination as a deacon.
- The more we think about ordination in the context of baptism, the greater the leveling effect.
- Whether at ordination a man expected to be a priest for thirty-seven years or forty-eight years, ordination was ordination.
- As for Harrigan, no fair reader could claim that the article did not delve into contentious issues such as liturgical reform, women's ordination, clerical sexual abuse, and racism.
- Lutherans had agreed to the Episcopal practice of ordination by a bishop.
- Attending to political perceptions and consequences, while not unimportant, is nowhere to be found in the rite of episcopal ordination.
- Behr-Sigel recognizes that Orthodox women are not permitted to preach within the liturgy itself, and that the possibility of ordination to the presbyterate seems a dim prospect.
- The Protestant Church of North India is now training women for ordination, despite initial resistance.
- One is ordained and two are considering ordination.
- With other controversial issues such as slavery and women's ordination, laity and clergy could find Bible verses to help Spirit-led changes.
- All churches have structures of ministry that they identify, in various ways, as arising from baptism and conferred through ordination and other forms of blessing and appointment.
- When I mentioned this to my wife Regina she said, ‘It should teach you that ordination isn't for you; it's for the church.’
- Among Anglicans, responsibility for the good order of the Church is placed in the hands of bishops by custom, rites of ordination, and canon law.
Synonyms induction, introduction, admission, admittance, installation, incorporation, investiture, investment, enlistment, enrolment, recruitment - 1.1count noun A ceremony in which someone is ordained.
授圣职礼 they travel to Exeter for an ordination Example sentencesExamples - The new ordinations also circumvent centuries-old protocol, said Jan Nunley, a priest who is deputy director of the Episcopal News Service.
- But, at the end of that practice period, the fall of 1972, I came back up here for the ordination ceremony and was here for about a year acting as Richard's attendant.
- There will be a solemn ordination service, with the taking of vows, the laying on of hands, and the giving of the right hand of fellowship.
- Bishop Christy Jones sent his apologies as he was performing an ordination in Strokestown at the same time.
- In order for a woman to be recognized as deacon an ordination had to take place.
- So the headquarters decided to have a full ordination ceremony here in Australia.
- If ordinations are classed as invalid because of such considerations, then the sacramental character of the ecclesial community is called into question.
- After their ordinations, parishioners and others will help complete their formation.
- The bishop, as spiritual elder, officiates at baptisms, weddings, communions, funerals, ordinations, and membership meetings.
- There are now 400-500 ordinations annually in Italy, compared to 100-150 in France; in the 1950s France had a smaller population and ordained more priests.
- Participants in the ordination ceremony included Morrison's father, Steve, who is an elder at Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
- After all, a coronation is merely an ordination on the grand scale.
- Lutherans have historically allowed pastors to preside at ordinations when authorized by the candidate's synod bishop.
- The ordination ceremony honors the presence of a special voice.
- There are, however, no studies of Marrant's Narrative as an ordination sermon, and the function that it served as such.
- I am reasonably sure the statement would also rule invalid the ordinations of several canonized saints.
- Campbell participated in many ordinations of men who would become pastors in these new churches.
- What the church does, then, when it conducts the wedding rite or the ordination rite is clear enough.
- Two weeks later, Olsen participated in the Episcopalians' ordinations at St. James Cathedral.
- In an older time, the hymn was frequently sung at priestly ordinations.
Synonyms installation, instatement, induction, investiture, inauguration, introduction, swearing in, initiation
2Ecology count noun A statistical technique in which data from a large number of sites or populations are represented as points in a multidimensional space. 〔主生态〕(统计技术)分布序列 Example sentencesExamples - A non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination identified two gradients of species replacement distinguished by differences in forest canopy species and groundcover.
- The requirements of assembling the ordination are the principal limitation to wide application.
- Both the habitat data and the ordination analysis indicate that many of these exotic species are found in forested areas.
- Inter-sample relationships in ordination space were largely determined by the abundance of common taxa.
- Such trends are better displayed by ordination techniques that map the relationship between communities in two- or three-dimensional space.
3literary The action of decreeing or ordaining.
OriginLate Middle English (in the general sense 'arrangement in order'): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare 'put in order' (see ordain). Definition of ordination in US English: ordinationnounˌɔrdnˈeɪʃ(ə)nˌôrdnˈāSH(ə)n 1The action of ordaining or conferring holy orders on someone. 授圣职 Example sentencesExamples - Infidelity to one's vows is sinful; infidelity to the grace and character of sacred ordination to the priesthood is sinful; sexual abuse in whatever form is sinful.
- Encouraged by his mother and her great friend, John Donne, he accepted ordination as a deacon.
- Among Anglicans, responsibility for the good order of the Church is placed in the hands of bishops by custom, rites of ordination, and canon law.
- Attending to political perceptions and consequences, while not unimportant, is nowhere to be found in the rite of episcopal ordination.
- I refer specifically to the Eastern tradition of requiring men to be married before they are ordained and prohibiting marriage after ordination.
- The Protestant Church of North India is now training women for ordination, despite initial resistance.
- Whether at ordination a man expected to be a priest for thirty-seven years or forty-eight years, ordination was ordination.
- Behr-Sigel recognizes that Orthodox women are not permitted to preach within the liturgy itself, and that the possibility of ordination to the presbyterate seems a dim prospect.
- The church retains the right to deny ordination to people on many grounds: age, marital history, financial history, criminal history, psychiatric history, and so on.
- All churches have structures of ministry that they identify, in various ways, as arising from baptism and conferred through ordination and other forms of blessing and appointment.
- Ministry does not begin at ordination, but at baptism.
- With other controversial issues such as slavery and women's ordination, laity and clergy could find Bible verses to help Spirit-led changes.
- One of the things I most look forward to, if the Lord wills, is attending my son Jeremy's ordination to the ministry.
- When I mentioned this to my wife Regina she said, ‘It should teach you that ordination isn't for you; it's for the church.’
- Redwoods Presbytery voted 90-37 to approve Morrison's ordination and installation as a field director for More Light Presbyterians.
- Lutherans had agreed to the Episcopal practice of ordination by a bishop.
- As for Harrigan, no fair reader could claim that the article did not delve into contentious issues such as liturgical reform, women's ordination, clerical sexual abuse, and racism.
- The nature of each is spelled out in baptism and ordination.
- The more we think about ordination in the context of baptism, the greater the leveling effect.
- One is ordained and two are considering ordination.
Synonyms induction, introduction, admission, admittance, installation, incorporation, investiture, investment, enlistment, enrolment, recruitment - 1.1 A ceremony in which someone is ordained.
授圣职礼 they travel to Exeter for an ordination Example sentencesExamples - Participants in the ordination ceremony included Morrison's father, Steve, who is an elder at Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
- The bishop, as spiritual elder, officiates at baptisms, weddings, communions, funerals, ordinations, and membership meetings.
- There are now 400-500 ordinations annually in Italy, compared to 100-150 in France; in the 1950s France had a smaller population and ordained more priests.
- But, at the end of that practice period, the fall of 1972, I came back up here for the ordination ceremony and was here for about a year acting as Richard's attendant.
- Bishop Christy Jones sent his apologies as he was performing an ordination in Strokestown at the same time.
- There are, however, no studies of Marrant's Narrative as an ordination sermon, and the function that it served as such.
- So the headquarters decided to have a full ordination ceremony here in Australia.
- The ordination ceremony honors the presence of a special voice.
- After their ordinations, parishioners and others will help complete their formation.
- After all, a coronation is merely an ordination on the grand scale.
- Two weeks later, Olsen participated in the Episcopalians' ordinations at St. James Cathedral.
- What the church does, then, when it conducts the wedding rite or the ordination rite is clear enough.
- Campbell participated in many ordinations of men who would become pastors in these new churches.
- Lutherans have historically allowed pastors to preside at ordinations when authorized by the candidate's synod bishop.
- There will be a solemn ordination service, with the taking of vows, the laying on of hands, and the giving of the right hand of fellowship.
- If ordinations are classed as invalid because of such considerations, then the sacramental character of the ecclesial community is called into question.
- I am reasonably sure the statement would also rule invalid the ordinations of several canonized saints.
- The new ordinations also circumvent centuries-old protocol, said Jan Nunley, a priest who is deputy director of the Episcopal News Service.
- In order for a woman to be recognized as deacon an ordination had to take place.
- In an older time, the hymn was frequently sung at priestly ordinations.
Synonyms installation, instatement, induction, investiture, inauguration, introduction, swearing in, initiation
2Ecology A statistical technique in which data from a large number of sites or populations are represented as points in a two- or three-dimensional coordinate frame. 〔主生态〕(统计技术)分布序列 Example sentencesExamples - Such trends are better displayed by ordination techniques that map the relationship between communities in two- or three-dimensional space.
- Inter-sample relationships in ordination space were largely determined by the abundance of common taxa.
- The requirements of assembling the ordination are the principal limitation to wide application.
- Both the habitat data and the ordination analysis indicate that many of these exotic species are found in forested areas.
- A non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination identified two gradients of species replacement distinguished by differences in forest canopy species and groundcover.
OriginLate Middle English (in the general sense ‘arrangement in order’): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare ‘put in order’ (see ordain). |