Order
(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 • Hypernyms: status, position • Hyponyms: acolyte, anagnost, deacon, doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius, exorcist, lector, reader, priest, subdeacon
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