Category:Ordination

Or`di*na"tion, n. Etym: [l. ordinatio: cf. F. 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. (eccl.)

Defn: the act of setting apart to an office in the christian Ministry; the conferring of holy orders.

3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [r.] Angle of ordination (geom.), The angle between the axes of coördinates.