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A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).
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(Christianity) The unbroken chain of consecrations by laying on of hands from the Apostles of Jesus Christ to the bishops, and from to bishop to bishop through the ages.
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(Christianity, obsolete) The state or quality of being apostolical.
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To be an ordained priest; to have taken the holy orders, the sacrament to become a priest
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In the Anglican church, the ceremony used to institute an abbot, analogous to the consecration of a bishop.
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(UK, law, historical) A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
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(transitive) To be caused to feel a spiritual urge to join the Catholic priesthood; to be fated to join the Catholic priesthood.
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(Christianity) The obedience, as regulated by the canons, of one ecclesiastic to another of higher rank.
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(law) An expert in canon law; canon lawyer
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(derogatory) The tendency to report or document things as they were told to one, without judging or doubting.
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(ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
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Any of the Ten Commandments.
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(of a newly ordained priest) To celebrate a mass along with the bishop who ordained him
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A chair, or rather booth, in various constructional variations, typically in church or chapel, where the confessor, seated in one compartment, can privately (to protect the sacred secret of the sacrament) hear confession from the person in the other
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A priest who hears confession
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(transitive, Roman Catholicism, specifically) To ordain as a bishop.
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A ritual book containing the forms and ceremonies used in the services of a particular monastery, cathedral or religious order.
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Of or pertaining to a convocation.
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Relating to a deacon; diaconal.
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Granting permission to be ordained.
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To administer the Priestly Blessing.
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The appointing of a person to a divine or sacred office.
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(uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
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(Protestantism) A lay preacher.
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(Christianity) Within the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, those papal decretals not contained in certain canonical collections which possess a special authority.
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An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
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(historical) The state or authority of a godi
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(religion) Initialism of holy orders. [(Christianity) The sacrament of ordination to the rank of minister or (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) deacon, priest, or bishop.]
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(transitive, obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
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(Christianity) The sacrament of ordination to the rank of minister or (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) deacon, priest, or bishop.
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To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
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(religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
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(ecclesiastical) The act of incardinating.
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A ritual during which an initiate is admitted to an organization or given secret knowledge; sometimes contains one or more tests that have to be passed or endured
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(historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.
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(specifically, chiefly historical) The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general.
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Having equivalent, or almost equivalent, authority with the apostles or their teachings.
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The appointment of religious officials (commonly bishops) by secular subjects (commonly kings or nobles).
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(dated) A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings.
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(archaic, rare) A male teacher
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(uncountable, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of magisterium (“the teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church”)
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(Christianity) The practice of producing manuals, or instruction books, to train the Roman Catholic clergy.
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(Catholicism) A specific form of short, solemn prayer said by the president of the liturgical celebration on behalf of the people.
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(countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
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The schedule of events for a religious service or ceremony.
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A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services
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A religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church.
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A candidate for ordination
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(Christianity) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.
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(transitive, uncommon) to ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop
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(Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
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(religion, derogatory) A religious organization or denomination in which membership is obtainable by trivial means and all members are qualified for self-ordination as a minister of religion without any prior training or work experience.
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Alternative form of ordainee [One who is ordained.]
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Counselling provided by pastors, chaplains and other religious leaders to members of their congregation, or to anyone within institutional settings, with a focus on healing, reconciling, and guidance.
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(intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
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The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.
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(collective) A group of missionaries.
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A formal approbation by the pope of a person nominated to an ecclesiastical dignity.
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The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
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Obsolete form of prayer. [(uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.]
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(religion) A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
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A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests.
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Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
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Relating to, or suitable for, the pulpit.
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Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.
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(obsolete) The teachings of the pulpit; preaching.
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A ritual performed in as part of a religious observation.
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(canon law) An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law.
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(religion) The right hand given by one minister or elder to another at an ordination in some churches.
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One of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.
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(obsolete) the priesthood
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The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
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A religious rite or ritual.
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The office or status of a religious superior
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A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
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To become ordained within the Christian church.
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Alternative form of take holy orders [To become ordained within the Christian church.]
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(Christianity) To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks.
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A person who carries a taper in a religious service
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the temporal or worldly possessions of the clergy
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An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
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(US, historical) A legal or religious reader.
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