ordination

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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
4. (statistics, ecology) A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.

   Synonym: gradient analysis

   Coordinate term: cluster analysis

Derived terms

• co-ordination
• misordination
• nonordination
• 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)
• Indonesian: penahbisan (id)
• Māori: whakawahinga, whakapirititanga, whakaminitatanga, whakapīhopatanga (as a bishop), whakarīkonatanga (as a deacon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordinasjon m

  Nynorsk: ordinasjon m

• Swedish: ordination (sv) c

ceremony

• Arabic: رِسامة f (risāma)
• Bulgarian: ръкополагане n (rǎkopolagane)
• Czech: svěcení (cs) n
• French: ordination (fr) f
• Greek: χειροτονία (el) f (cheirotonía)
• Indonesian: penahbisan (id)
• Latin: teleta f
• Māori: whakapirititanga, whakaminitatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordinasjon m

  Nynorsk: ordinasjon m

• Old English: hādung f
• 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

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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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

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin ordinatio

Noun

ordination c

1. (medicine) prescription
2. (religion) ordination

Declension

Declension of ordination

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ordination	ordinations
	definite	ordinationen	ordinationens
plural	indefinite	ordinationer	ordinationers
	definite	ordinationerna	ordinationernas

Related terms

• ordinera

References

• ordination in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker