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Word | Ordination |
Italian Meaning | ordinazione |
the act of ordaining; the priest's family was present for his ordination / the status of being ordained to a sacred office / The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart / ceremony conferring holy orders / the action of ordaining or conferring holy orders on someone. / the official act or process of making someone a priest, minister, etc., | |
Usage | ⇒ The ordination was made by the head priest ⇒ The candidate for ordination had to meet with the bishop and the diocesan officers before being judged ready to be ordained a deacon. ⇒ He is a candidate for 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. |
Synonyms | consecration, installation, order, appointment, induction, ordering, ordinance, decree, designation, institution, investiture, regulation, assignment, coordination, holy orders, inauguration, nomination, organization, preferment, presentation, |
Antonyms | puzzlement, bafflement, disarrangement, dismay, disruption, jumble, |
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