Definitions for ordination

ordination or·di·na·tion

Spelling: [awr-dn-ey-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌɔr dnˈeɪ ʃən/

Ordination is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 375 anagrams from letters in ordination (adiinnoort).

Definitions for ordination

noun

  1. Ecclesiastical. the act or ceremony of ordaining.
  2. the fact or state of being ordained.
  3. a decreeing.
  4. the act of arranging.
  5. the resulting state; disposition; arrangement.

Origin of ordination

1350-1400; Middle English ordinacioun Late Latin ōrdinātiō ordainment, Latin: a putting in order, appointment, equivalent to ōrdinā(re) to order, arrange (derivative of ōrdō, stem ōrdin-, ord

Examples for ordination

Then they had gone back to their places to await the ordination.

Long afterward she recognized how deeply the ordination had affected her.

It may be the ordination of the Unknown that I should Pass before he arrives.

At the close of the ordination the blessing from the new priest began.

There, indeed, lay Clarimonde, even as I had seen her at the church on the day of my ordination.

We ought to study adaptation in the selection and ordination of ruling them.

Doane's ordination sermon, 1833, admirable,—Wrote some thoughts.

The word 'ordination' does not occur in the passage in question.

His colleague Mr. Gannett was gone to an ordination at Buffalo.

Yet, until now, in the Orthodox movement, ordination has been granted only privately and rather infrequently.

Word Value for ordination
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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