Meaning of be in orders | Babel Free

Definitions

To be an ordained priest; to have taken the holy orders, the sacrament to become a priest

irregular

Examples

“[H]e was not at all the person to knock into a gutter, for though not in orders, he had the air of being on the verge of them, and his features, as well as his clothes, had the clerical cut.”

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