Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A second or repeated ordination.

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  • noun A second ordination.

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  • noun A second or subsequent ordination; an act of reordaining.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ ordination

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Examples

  • He also noted increasing discomfort with the idea of absolute reordination and a sense of guilt that he had abandoned traditionalists in the Episcopal Church.

    Forward in Mission: Parts 1-5 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • He also noted increasing discomfort with the idea of absolute reordination and a sense of guilt that he had abandoned traditionalists in the Episcopal Church.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • American intrinsic, the heraldic of the old world blended with the romantic of the new -- which might make the Duke of Devonshire proud to receive reordination at their hands.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • In the matter of installation into a new office of an elder, previously ordained, churches are to exercise the right of individual judgment and of preference as to reordination.

    The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

  • In 881-82 Pope John VIII prescribed the reordination of Bishop Joseph of Vercelli, who had been ordained by the Archbishop of Milan, then under the ban of excommunication.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • [9] Nay, many English benefices were held by divines who had been admitted to the ministry in the Calvinistic form used on the Continent; nor was reordination by a Bishop in such cases then thought necessary, or even lawful.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • Then it was provided that any minister who had been ordained after the Presbyterian fashion might, without reordination, acquire all the privileges of a priest of the Established Church.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • Overal, (Bishop) some account of him, cxxi, cxxii. declares against reordination, cxxii.

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820

  • Since clerics coming from these Churches into the bosom of the Orthodox Church are received without reordination we express our judgment that this should also hold in the case of Anglicans - excluding intercommunio (sacramental union), by which one might receive the sacraments indiscriminately at the hands of an Anglican, even one holding the Orthodox dogma, until the dogmatic unity of the two Churches, Orthodox and Anglican, is attained.

    The Continuum Fr. Robert Hart 2010

  • Since clerics coming from these Churches into the bosom of the Orthodox Church are received without reordination we express our judgment that this should also hold in the case of Anglicans - excluding intercommunio (sacramental union), by which one might receive the sacraments indiscriminately at the hands of an Anglican, even one holding the Orthodox dogma, until the dogmatic unity of the two Churches, Orthodox and Anglican, is attained.

    Hallowedground 2009

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