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Confer Holy Orders

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verb

• order by virtue of superior authority; decree

• appoint to a clerical posts

• invest with ministerial or priestly authority

• issue an order

52%8 To confer holy orders again
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35%11 An ecclesiastical or civil officer who has the power to confer certain ecclesiastical or lay orders
noun

• A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.

• One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.

• A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts.

• (Greek Orthodox Church) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.

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New York Times11 Jan 1988 Down 10
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