holy order

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holy order - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Holy Order
      n 1: (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" [syn: Holy Order,
           Order]
      2: the sacrament of ordination