Sample sentences for ORDINATION

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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.

ordination = ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader

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

ordination = ceremony in which one is officially declared a priest or other religious leader

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

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