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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ordinand
noun
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▪ Its effectiveness is revealed only after the ordinand has been ordained.
▪ Its purpose was to survey the quantity and quality of training in church music currently being given to ordinands in Britain.
▪ Milner-White recommended ordinands to go to Cuddesdon, his own old college; and so he advised Ramsey.
▪ Ramsey lost neither his sense of humour nor his power of mimicry when he became an ordinand.
▪ The overall picture, however, is of a lack of systematic training in church music for ordinands.
▪ Where there are ordinands or members of staff with professional musical skills, they are used for teaching.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordinand

Ordinand \Or"di*nand`\, n. [L. ordinandus, gerundive of ordinare. See Ordain.] One about to be ordained.

Wiktionary
ordinand

n. A candidate for ordination

WordNet
ordinand

n. a person being ordained

Usage examples of "ordinand".

Creditors were zeroing in on the Ordinand proceeds, and there would be precious little left for other sharks.

A procession of ordinands in red robes, their freshly shaven heads gleaming with oil, wound in a long straggling line behind men banging tambours.

And then, after the archbishop had set his hands on the head of each kneeling candidate for the first time, he remained bowed with his fellow ordinands while all the other priests present came forward to touch each new priest in additional blessing.

Ordinand had caused a huge flutter in the dovecotes of owners of good-as-gold horses, and I in conjunction with our chummy insurance syndicate at Lloyds was busy raising defenses against copycat kidnaps.

A procession of ordinands in red robes, their freshly shaven heads gleaming with oil, wound in a long straggling line behind men banging tambours.

Ann had had a lover like him once, an ordinand from Wells Theological College.