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The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,

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The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 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.

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  • ORDINATION
    The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,
  • STAGERY
    Exhibition on the stage.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • STANDAGE
    A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
  • STANDER-BY
    One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
  • STAGECOACHMAN
    One who drives a stagecoach.
  • STANDERGRASS
    A plant ; -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
  • STAND
    OS. standan, stan, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. stå, Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. stha. *163. Cf. Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist, Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice, Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n., Rest remainder,
  • GRADATIONAL
    By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
  • STAGECOACH
    A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
  • STANDISH
    A stand, or case, for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.
  • STAGELY
    Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor.
  • STAGEPLAYER
    An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
  • DEGREE
    A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
  • STANDARD-WING
    A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
  • STAGE DIRECTOR
    One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
  • STANDARDIZE
    To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
  • STANDARD-BRED
    Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • RETROGRADATION
    1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • INSUBORDINATION
    The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
  • MISARRANGEMENT
    Wrong arrangement.
  • UNDERSTANDINGLY
    In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • WASTAGE
    Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
  • HOSTAGE
    A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
  • BOOKSTAND
    1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
  • WASHSTAND
    A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
  • BALLASTAGE
    A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
  • COSTAGE
    Expense; cost. Chaucer.
  • UNCIRCUMSTANDTIAL
    1. Not circumstantial; not entering into minute particulars. 2. Not important; not pertinent; trivial.
  • FORESTAGE
    A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.

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