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Angle of ordination

Ordination \Or`di*na"tion\, n. [L. ordinatio: cf. F. ordination.]

  1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.

    The holy and wise ordination of God.
    --Jer. Taylor.

    Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.
    --Norris.

  2. (Eccl.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.

  3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.]

    Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of co["o]rdinates.