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holy orders
 
Noun holy order has 1 sense
  1. holy order, order - (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate order"
    --1 is a kind of sacrament; status, position; sacrament; status, position
    --1 has parts: ordination, ordinance
    --1 has particulars:
     acolyte; anagnost; deacon; doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius; exorcist; lector, reader; priest; subdeacon
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