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[ conferred. The abbot may choose a monk for ordination as priest or deacon; but the ordince is to rank in the house from the date of his admi ion. Plural of ordo . Encyc. Brit ., XVI. 705. With full consent this man did ordinate The heir apparent to the crown and land. 2. To direct; dispose. Daniel , Civil Wars, iv. 22. Look up to that over-ruling hand of the Almighty, who ordinates all their [thy spiritual enemies'] motions to his own holy purposes. Bp . Hall , Balm of Gilead, iii. § 3. ordinatelyt (ôr'di-nat-li), adv . Regularly; according to an established order; in order. I wyll ordinately treate of the two partes of a publike weale. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 2. ordination (ôr-di-nā'shon), n. [OF. ordina tion , also ord in a is on , F. ordination = Sp. ordina cion = Pg. ordenação = It. ord in azione , dinatio ( n- ), a setting in order, ordering, ordainment, ordinance, rule, ord in are , order, ordain: see ordain .] 1. Disposition as in ranks or rows; formal arrangement; array. Cyrus. disposing his trees, like his armies, in regular ordination . Sir T. Browne , Garden of Cyrus, i. 2. The act of admitting to holy orders, or to the Christian ministry; the rite of conferring holy orders or investing with ministerial or sacerdotal power and authority. In episcopal churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek and other Oriental churches, and the Anglican Church, ordination consists in imposition of hands by a bishop upon the candidate, thus admitting him to one of the holy orders, and conferring on him the powers of that order and authority to perform its functions. The act of elevation to the episcopate is in strict technical use called consecration, not ordination. Ordination in its wider sense includes admi ion to the minor orders, which are usually conferred in the Roman Catholic Church by a bishop, but can be bestowed by an abbot, the act of admi ion consisting in the tradition (delivery) of the instruments. In Presbyterian churches the power of ordination rests with the presbytery, who appoint one or more of their number to conduct the ordination ceremonies, which include laying on of hands. In Congregational and Baptist churches ordination is customarily performed by the pastors of other churches (of the same denomination), but is regarded as nece ary only for the preservation of church order; and the service is regarded as conferring no special religious authority. See institution, induction, installation. As for Ordination , what is it but the laying on of hands, an outward signe or symbol of admi ion? Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 31. Arrangement of parts so as to form a consistent whole; organization; prearrangement; constitution. IMG:content-1820.png:[blocks in formation] fermeture. Formerly sometimes used in the plural. Behold the ordnance on their carriages With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. Shak., Hen. V., Prol., 1. 26. He built nine or ten forts and planted ordnances upon them. S. Clarke , Four Plantations in America (1670), p. 2. Board of ordnance. (at) Formerly, in Great Britain, a board, consisting of a master-general, surveyor-general, clerk, and storekeeper (usually members of Parliament), which provided the army and navy with guns, ammunition, and arms of every description, and superintended the providing of stores, equipment, etc. The Crime an disasters in 1854 showed the defects of this board, which was shortly afterward di olved. (b) A board composed of United States ordnance-officers distinguished for their attainments in the theory and practice of heavy ordnance, its construction and use, whose duty it is to conduct experiments, and test and report upon all ordnance subjects referred to it by the chief of ordnance. This board is designated by the Secretary of War, and is advisory to the chief of ordnance of the army. Bureau of Ordnance. See Department of See ordinary , n., 3. cially texts of poets, a rearrangement of the Latin words in English order.-3. Eccles.: ( a ) A directory or book of rubrics. (b) An office or service with its rubrics. - Ordo mi æ, the ordinary or order of the ma . ordonnance (ôr'do-nans), n. [ But in a history-piece of many figures, the general de sign, the ordonnance or disposition of it, the relation of one figure to another, the diversity the posture, habits, shadowings, and all the other graces conspiring to an uniformity, are of. difficult performance. IMG:content-1821.png:[blocks in formation] Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., xiii. 2. An ordinance; a law. Specifically, in French law: ( a ) A partial code embodying rules of law upon a particular subject, such as constituted a considerable proportion of the civil and commercial legislation during the reigns of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. (b) An order of court. ordonnant (or'do-nant), a. [F. ordonnant, ppr. of ordonner, arrange, ordain: see ordinant, a doublet of ordonnant. ] Relating to or implying ordonnance. Cole ridge. Or do vic i an (ôr-do-vish'ian), a. [Named from the Or do vices, an ancient British (North Welsh) tribe.] An epithet applied by C. Lapworth to a series of rocks not capable of exact separation from those underlying or overlying them, either strati graphically or pale ontologically, but which have been the subject of much discu ion among English geologists. They form a part of the Lower Silurian of Murchison, more or le of the Upper Cam brian of Sedgwick, the Cambro-Silurian of Jukes, the Siluro-Cam brian of some authors, the second fauna of Barrande, etc. As limited in Wales, according to H. B. Woodward, the Or do vic i an may be said to extend from the base of the Arenig series to the base of the Llandovery. Graptolites and trilobites are the most abundant fo ils, and there is a large amount of intercalated volcanic material. The name Or do vic i an does not appear in the text-book of geology recently i ued by the director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, nor has it any place in American Silurian geology as worked out by the New York and Pennsylvania Surveys, nor can the strata thus named in England be strictly parallelized with any one or more divisions of the Silurian as established in the United States.