| 单词 | ordination |
| 释义 | ordination (once / 3401 pages) 1n 2n What an inauguration is to a president, an ordination is to a religious authority. It's the ceremony of bestowing a person with a position of religious authority — as when someone becomes a priest, minister, or shaman. The noun ordination comes from the Latin word ordinare, meaning “put in order.” Becoming a religious leader usually requires training in a seminary followed by an ordination. On the other hand, the ordination of a monarch is a ceremony in which a King’s or Queen’s divine right to rule the country, which was historically considered a birth right, is asserted and initiated without any seminary courses required. WORD FAMILYordination: ordinations+/foreordain: foreordained, foreordaining, foreordains, foreordination/ordain: foreordain, ordained, ordainer, ordaining, ordains, ordinance, ordination, preordain/ordained: ordainedly/ordainer: ordainers/ordinance: ordinances/preordain: preordained, preordaining, preordains, preordination USAGE EXAMPLESBut China has long insisted on controlling ordinations, arguing that anything else amounts to interference in its internal affairs. Seattle Times(Nov 26, 2016) In the days leading to his official ordination on Jan. 17, he asked for one favor: “Please pray for me.” Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) According to reporters who were on the plane, Francis responded, “On the ordination of women in the Catholic Church, the last word is clear.” New York Times(Nov 01, 2016) 1 1n the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders the rabbi's family was present for his ordination Syn|Hypo|Hyper ordinance laying on of hands laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination appointment, assignment, designation, naming the act of putting a person into a non-elective position 2n the status of being ordained to a sacred office 2Hyper position, status the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society n logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements Syn|Hypo|Hyper order, ordering bacteria order an order of bacteria word orderthe order of words in a text genetic codethe ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells genomethe ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism seriessimilar things placed in order or happening one after another Stations, Stations of the Cross(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary chain, concatenationa series of things depending on each other as if linked together cordona series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing course, linea connected series of events or actions or developments cyclea series of poems or songs on the same theme electrochemical series, electromotive force series, electromotive seriesa serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series hierarchya series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system triplet codethe normal version of the genetic code in which a sequence of three nucleotides codes for the synthesis of a specific amino acid nexusa connected series or group patterned advance, progressiona series with a definite pattern of advance blizzard, rasha series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences sequenceserial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern string, traina sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding successiona group of people or things arranged or following in order wave traina succession of waves spaced at regular intervals helium groupthe series of inert gases actinide series(chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium lanthanide seriesthe rare-earth elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71; having properties similar to lanthanum arrangement an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging |
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