- ordination - the status of being ordained to a sacred office
--1 is a kind of status, position
- ordering, order, ordination - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
--2 is a kind of arrangement
--2 has particulars:bacteria order; word order; genetic code; genome; series - ordination, ordinance - the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"
--3 is a kind of appointment, assignment, designation, naming
--3 is a part of holy orders
--3 has particulars: laying on of hands - ordering, order, ordination - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"