ordination

ordination

English

Etymology

From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

ordination (countable and uncountable, plural ordinations)

1. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
2. (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
3. (Buddhism) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha

Related terms

• ordain
• order
• ordinal
• ordinance, ordnance
• ordinary
• ordinate
• ordination
• ordo

 

With prefixes

• coordinate, coordination
• foreordination
• insubordination
• postordination
• preordination
• reordination
• subordinate, subordination
• subordination
• superordination

 

Translations

act of ordaining

Bulgarian: разпореждане (bg) n (razporeždane) French: ordination (fr) f Greek: χειροτονία (el) f (cheirotonía) Hungarian: felszentelés (hu) Maori: whakawahinga, whakapirititanga, whakaminitatanga, whakapīhopatanga (as a bishop), whakarīkonatanga (as a deacon) Norwegian: Bokmål: ordinasjon m Nynorsk: ordinasjon m Swedish: ordination (sv) c

ceremony

Bulgarian: ръкополагане n (rǎkopolagane) French: ordination (fr) f Greek: χειροτονία (el) f (cheirotonía) Maori: whakapirititanga, whakaminitatanga Norwegian: Bokmål: ordinasjon m Nynorsk: ordinasjon m Polish: święcenia (pl) f pl Portuguese: ordenação (pt) f Russian: рукоположе́ние (ru) n (rukopoložénije) Spanish: ordenación (es) Tagalog: ordenasyon Ukrainian: висвя́чення n (vysvjáčennja)

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

ordination f (plural ordinations)

1. ordination

Further reading

• “ordination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.