ordination

英[ɔːdɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] 美[,ɔrdn'eʃən]

1. the status of being ordained to a sacred office

2. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;

"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"

3. the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders;

"the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"