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

Derived terms

• co-ordination
• ordination hall
• ordination mill
• self-ordination

 

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)
• Czech: vysvěcení n
• 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)
• Czech: svěcení (cs) n
• French: ordination (fr) f
• Greek: χειροτονία (el) f (cheirotonía)
• Latin: teleta f
• 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)

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.