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American Church Dictionary
• Orientation
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Orientation
• Oriental Church, Congregation for the
• Congregation for the Oriental Church
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Costume, Oriental
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Banda Oriental
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Intendencia Oriental y Llanos de San Martín
• Oriental Study and Research
• Orientation of Churches
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Bibel'sche Orient, Der
• Literaturblatt Des Orients
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(1):

(n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.

(2):

(n.) The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

(3):

(n.) An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.

(4):

(n.) The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.