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ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader — such as a minister, priest, or rabbi- They say the Bible does not discuss ordination of women and that it is only out-dated custom that prevents it.
- Her extended family attended the ordination.
- Eastern-Rite Catholic priests may marry before their ordination.
- "Of the two, reverend sir," said the voice like the deacon's, "I had rather miss an ordination dinner than to-night's meeting."Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown
- I cannot call it ordained of God: I can't get that far.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- To them, and not to us, perhaps, is the future ordained.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- McGurk Institute simply must get in on this co-ordination, which I regard as one of the greatest advances in thinking that has ever been made.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- Oh, what deeds He had ordained!Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Absalom Jones, born a slave in 1746 and freed in 1784, was the first African-American to be ordained an Episcopal priest.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
- They talked now of his ordination, of how he could get Jefferson as his call.William Faulkner -- Light in August
- And that was ordained, I guess is the word for it, on the night Sorcha sacrificed herself.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- Lopsang Jangbu's father, Ngawang Sya Kya-an ordained lama-burned juniper incense and chanted Buddhist scripture beneath a metallic gray sky.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- An act, ordained, foreseen, inevitable as this very moment, a channel of expertness, imbued for ages, reiterated for ages, familiar as breath.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- In fact, the patient's death had been ordained irrevocably.Albert Camus -- The Stranger
- But hard fate had ordained that he should be unable to call up this Divine spirit in his need.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- So much the worse, or rather, so much the better; it has been so ordained that he may have none to weep his fate.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Bob, being of a sect which did not require ordination, had made himself chaplain as well as medical officer simply by starting to hold meetings.Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
- Marriages can be performed by any ordained minister.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- Alan, Jase, and Willie are ordained ministers and attended seminary at White's Ferry Road Church.Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
- He took his Franciscan vows in 1961 and was ordained as a priest in 1970.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
ordination = ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader
ordination = ceremony in which one is officially declared a priest or other religious leader
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