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holy order
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun holy order has 2 senses
- holy order(n = noun.state) order - (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" has particulars: acolyte, anagnost, deacon, doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, exorcist, lector, reader, priest, subdeacon
- holy order(n = noun.act) Array - the sacrament of ordination; Array has parts: ordinance, ordination
is a kind of position, status
is a kind of sacrament
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