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.
The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.
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