ordinee

A young ordinee delivers his first sermon to the congregation.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A newly ordained minister: "ordinee" refers to a person who has recently been ordained, especially as a Christian minister or priest.

Usage Examples

• (The newly ordained minister preached for the first time.)
• (The recently ordained person was greeted by the church members.)

Advanced Usage

• "the ordinee's first charge": the first parish or congregation assigned to a newly ordained minister.
  • The bishop assigned the ordinee to a rural parish for his first charge. (The newly ordained minister was given his first pastoral responsibility.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ordain (verb): to formally invest someone with ministerial or priestly authority.

  • The bishop will ordain three new priests next Sunday. (The bishop will officially make them priests.)

• Ordination (noun): the ceremony or process of ordaining someone.

  • The ordination took place in the cathedral. (The ceremony of making someone a minister.)

• Ordained (adjective): having been formally invested with ministerial authority.

  • She is an ordained minister in the Methodist church. (She has been officially appointed as a minister.)

Synonyms

• Newly ordained minister: a minister who has just received ordination.
• Fresh clergyman: a clergyman who has recently entered the ministry.

Related Idioms

• To take holy orders: to become ordained as a priest or minister.

  • He took holy orders at the age of thirty. (He was ordained as a priest.)

• To receive one's calling: to experience a religious vocation leading to ordination.

  • She felt she had received her calling to serve the church. (She believed God had called her to ministry.)