ordination
noun/ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn/
/ˌɔːrdnˈeɪʃn/
[uncountable, countable]- the act or ceremony of making somebody a priest, minister or rabbi see also ordainTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word Originlate Middle English (in the general sense ‘arrangement in order’): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare ‘put in order’, from ordo, ordin- ‘row, series, rank’.
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