holy order
English Thesaurus
1. the sacrament of ordination (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | sacrament, |
| definition | : | a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction (noun.act) |
| part holonym | : | ordinance, ordination, |
| definition | : | the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders (noun.act) |
2. (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | position, status, |
| definition | : | the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | acolyte, |
| definition | : | someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | anagnost, |
| definition | : | a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | deacon, |
| definition | : | a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, |
| definition | : | the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | exorcist, |
| definition | : | one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | lector, reader, |
| definition | : | someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | priest, |
| definition | : | a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | subdeacon, |
| definition | : | a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person) |
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