Word Meanings - ORDAINMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ordination. Burke.

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• ORDINATION
  The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• INSUBORDINATION
  The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
• MISORDINATION
  Wrong ordination.
• DISORDINATION
  The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. Bacon.
• INORDINATION
  Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy. South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.
• REORDINATION
  A second ordination.
• FOREORDINATION
  Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
• DEORDINATION
  Disorder; dissoluteness. Excess of rideordination. Jer. Taylor.
• SUBORDINATION
  1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting. 2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection. Natural creature having a local subordination. Holyday. 3. Place
• SUPERORDINATION
  The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.
• PREORDINATION
  The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.
• COORDINATION
  1. The act of coördinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as
• INCOORDINATION; INCOOERDINATION
  Want of coördination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoördination of muscular movement , irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.