the act of conferring holy orders, or of initiating a person into the priesthood by prayer and the laying on of hands.

ORDNANCE, a general name for all sorts of great guns used in war. See Gunnery.

Office of Ordnance, an office kept within the tower of London, which superintends and disposes of all the arms, instruments, and utensils of war, both by sea and land, ORG in all the magazines, garrifons, and forts, in Great Britain.