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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Order in Church
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Religious Orders
• Qualifications for Holy Orders
• Orders, Holy
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Order, New
• New Order
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Orders, Religious
• Orders
• Order
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Holy Orders
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Order: of Gracious Operations
• Order in Duty: Its Beauty
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Order
King James Dictionary
• Ordering
• Ordered
• Order
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Seraphic Order
• Second Order of Saint Francis
• Second Order of Saint Dominic
•   (only first 3 shown)
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Order
• Set in Order
Webster Dictionary
• Stop Order
• Ordering
• Orderer
•   (only first 3 shown)
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Book of Common Order
• Charging Order
• Composite Order
•   (only first 3 shown)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Order
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Alcantara, Orders of
• Angelic Order, Nuns of.
• Annunciad or Annunciada, Order of
•   (only first 3 shown)
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Andrew, St., Russian Order of
• Bath, Order of the
• Cincinnatus, the Order of
•   (only first 3 shown)
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Abbey and Order of Grandmont
• Ancient Order of Hibernians (in America)
• Anglican Orders
•   (only first 3 shown)
Lexicons
• ܛܰܟ݁ܶܣ
• ܛܶܟ݁ܣܳܐ
• Protimesis; or Description of Order
• ἀνατάσσομαι
• διαστέλλω
• διατάσσω
•   (only first 3 shown)
• אָמַר , אָמַר
• אֲמַר
• דָּבָר
•   (only first 3 shown)

By way of eminency, or holy orders, denote a character peculiar to ecclesiastics, whereby they are set apart for the ministry. This the Romanists make their sixth sacrament. In no reformed church are there more than three orders, viz. bishops, priests, and deacons. In the Romish church there are seven, exclusive of the episcopate; all which the council of Trent enjoins to be received and believed on pain of anathema. They are distinguished into petty or secular orders, and major or sacred orders. Orders, the petty or minor, are four, viz. those of door-keepers, exorcist, reader, and acolyth. Sacred, or major, are deacon, priest, and bishop.