Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy;
- Example: "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"[syn: Holy Order, Order]
2. the sacrament of ordination;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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