be in orders

English

Verb

be in orders (highly irregular)

1. To be an ordained priest; to have taken the holy orders, the sacrament to become a priest
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 18]:

     [H]e was not at all the person to knock into a gutter, for though not in orders, he had the air of being on the verge of them, and his features, as well as his clothes, had the clerical cut.

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