“The ordination of the new bishop was a grand ceremony, marking her official induction into the church hierarchy.”

“After the lengthy deliberation and careful study, the committee concluded that the ordination of the new species was necessary to accurately classify it within the existing taxonomy.”

“The designation of rabbi is given when one receives rabbinical ordination, earned by passing extensive examinations on the Torah and Talmud.”

“At the outset, all the variables are segmented into deciles to preserve the ordinality, but destroy the exact metric of the variables.”

“This raises the possibility of reinstating the centrality of the ordinal numbers as the fundamental numbers even in the case of infinite sets, thus making ordinality the foundation of cardinality for all sets.”

“Furthermore, the distinction between cardinality and ordinality has been relatively unimportant in previous empirical studies.”

“Jeff Rawle, star of Drop The Dead Donkey and I Saw You, plays the pernickety Father Peregrine, and Jesse Spencer is the handsome young ordinand Raphael.”

“Most of the time, he is content with this document and a short meeting with the ordinand.”

“Kneeling in front of the bishop, the ordinand places his right hand on the lectionary, his thumb touching the ledge.”

“There was not only a freedom of religion but also freedom to practice a religion in any manner, without compulsion and decree or ordainment.”

“Within months of his ordainment Vivaldi was appointed violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà.”

“Its communication or ordainment might be ascribed to a God or a divine King.”

“And most of the ordinands are facing the altar, either standing, or crouching down with their forehead touching the ground in a full bow.”

“As one of my characters says, these may be priests and ordinands, but they are still men.”

“Her priests and ordinands are fallible human beings, but they are serious about their faith and committed to their calling.”

“Under huge pressure, Edward agreed to the proposal and the Ordainers were elected, broadly evenly split between reformers and conservatives.”

“By now the Ordainers had drawn up their Ordinances for reform and Edward had little political choice but to give way and accept them in October.”

“In 1907 he introduced special types of ordinals in an attempt to prove Cantor's continuum hypothesis.”

“In this latter book she presented a 30 page appendix on the theory of infinite cardinals and ordinals.”

“Form numbers are conceived as ordinals, with units conceived as being well ordered.”