Ordination
Ordination , noun
[Latin ordinatio: compare French ordination.]
1.
The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
The holy and wise ordination of God.
Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.
2.
(Ecclesiastical) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
3.
Disposition; arrangement; order. [Rare]
Collocations (1)
Angle of ordination (Geometry) , the angle between the axes of coordinates.