Look up: Ordination

1. Ordination
   Process by which plant or animal communities are ordered along a gradient.
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2. ordination
   [n] - the status of being ordained to a sacred office 2. [n] - the act of ordaining
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3. ordination
   Religious ceremony by which a person is accepted into the priesthood or monastic life in various religions. Within the Christian church, ordination authorizes a person...
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4. Ordination
   Mathematical system for categorizing communities on a graph so that those that are most similar in species composition appear closest together.
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5. Ordination
   At an ordination, an individual is commissioned and empowered for the work of ministry. Ordination is the ritual used to make someone a priest or deacon, by the laying on of hands by a bishop.
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6. Ordination
   Or`di·na'tion noun [ Latin ordinatio : confer French ordination .] 1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc. « The holy and wise ordination of God.» ...
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7. ordination
   1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc. 'The holy and wise ordination of God.' (Jer. Taylor) 'Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.' (Norris) ... 2. The act of setting apart to an office...
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8. ordination
   ordinance noun the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; `the rabbi`s family was present for his ordination`
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9. ordination
   noun the status of being ordained to a sacred office
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10. Ordination
    • (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. • (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc. • (n.) Disposition; arrangement; order.
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11. ordination
    in Christian churches, a rite for the dedication and commissioning of ministers. The essential ceremony consists of the laying of hands of the ... [14 related articles]
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12. ordination
    ordination: see ministry; orders, holy.
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13. ordination
    Religious ceremony by which a person is accepted into the priesthood or monastic life in various religions. Within the Christian church, ordination authorizes a person to administer the sacraments. Ordination of women Many Protestant denominations, such as the Methodists and Baptists, ordain women a...
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14. Ordination
    In general religious use, `ordination` is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. The process and ceremonies of ordination itself varies by religion and denomination. One who is in preparation for, or who is un...
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15. Ordination
    (statistics) In multivariate analysis, `ordination` is a method complementary to data clustering, and used mainly in exploratory data analysis (rather than in hypothesis testing). Ordination orders objects that are characterized by values on multiple variables (i.e., multivariate objects) so ...
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