ordination
English Thesaurus
1. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders (noun.act)
| hyponym | : | laying on of hands, |
| definition | : | laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination (noun.act) |
| part meronym | : | holy order, |
| definition | : | the sacrament of ordination (noun.act) |
2. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements (noun.group)
| hypernym | : | arrangement, |
| definition | : | an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | word order, |
| definition | : | the order of words in a text (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | genetic code, |
| definition | : | the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | genome, |
| definition | : | the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | series, |
| definition | : | similar things placed in order or happening one after another (noun.group) |
3. the status of being ordained to a sacred office (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | position, status, |
| definition | : | the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society (noun.state) |
4. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders (noun.act)
| derivation | : | ordain, |
| definition | : | invest with ministerial or priestly authority (verb.social) |
5. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements (noun.group)
| derivation | : | order, |
| definition | : | place in a certain order (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | order, |
| definition | : | bring order to or into (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | arrange, order, put, set up, |
| definition | : | arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events (verb.cognition) |
6. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders (noun.act)
| derivation | : | ordain, |
| definition | : | invest with ministerial or priestly authority (verb.social) |
7. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements (noun.group)
| derivation | : | order, |
| definition | : | place in a certain order (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | order, |
| definition | : | bring order to or into (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | arrange, order, put, set up, |
| definition | : | arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events (verb.cognition) |
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