1. ceremonies in which people are made priests, ministers, or other religious officials
Usage: religious context
2. acts of arranging things in order or establishing systematic arrangements
Usage: formal

Examples

• The cathedral hosted three ordinations last Sunday.
• Many families attended the ordinations of the new ministers.
• The bishop performed the ordinations with great ceremony.
• Ordinations in this denomination require years of study.
• The ordinations of the data took several hours to complete.
• Proper ordinations of the files made retrieval much easier.