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ordination
 
Noun ordination has 3 senses
  1. ordination - the status of being ordained to a sacred office
    --1 is a kind of     status, position
  2. ordering, order, ordination - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
    --2 is a kind of arrangement
    --2 has particulars:
     bacteria order; word order; genetic code; genome; series
  3. ordination, ordinance - the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"
    --3 is a kind of appointment, assignment, designation, naming
    --3 is a part of holy orders
    --3 has particulars: laying on of hands
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