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任命,神职授任,命令

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ordination \Or`di*na"tion\, n. [L. ordinatio: cf. F.
   ordination.]
   1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the
      state of being ordained, appointed, etc.

            The holy and wise ordination of God.  --Jer. Taylor.

            Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the
            happiness and misery of life respectively. --Norris.

   2. (Eccl.) The act of setting apart to an office in the
      Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.

   3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.]

   {Angle of ordination} (Geom.), the angle between the axes of
      co["o]rdinates.

资料来源 : WordNet®

ordination
     n 1: the status of being ordained to a sacred office
     2: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;
        "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of
        their presentation" [syn: {ordering}, {order}]
     3: the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving)
        holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his
        ordination" [syn: {ordinance}]