laying on of hands laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination
ordination -
the status of being ordained to a sacred office
ordination -
logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
genetic code the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells
genome the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism; "the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs"
In general religious use, ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. The process and ceremonies of ordination itself varies by religion and denomination. One who is in preparation for, or who is undergoing the process of, ordination is sometimes called an ordinand.
