ordination
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• noun
The action of ordaining someone into a religious ministry, or the ceremony and state of being ordained as a priest, minister, rabbi, or monk.
"Her family traveled across the country to attend her ordination at the cathedral."
The arrangement, classification, or ordering of things or data in relation to one another (especially in ecology and multivariate statistics to represent complex datasets along axes).
"The ecologists used ordination to analyze how plant species composition varied across different soil moisture gradients."
An authoritative decree, appointment, or predetermined order established by fate, nature, or a higher power.
"Early philosophers debated whether human destiny was governed by free will or by divine ordination."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French or directly from Latin ordinatio ('an arranging in order, appointment to office'), derived from the verb ordinare ('to put in order, arrange'), from ordo ('row, rank, series, arrangement').
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