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take orders

take orders is the alternative form of take holy orders.

Meaning of take holy orders

Verb

take holy orders (third-person singular simple present takes holy orders, present participle taking holy orders, simple past took holy orders, past participle taken holy orders)

  1. To become ordained within the Christian church.

Forms of take orders

third-person singular presenttakes orders
present participletaking orders
pasttook orders
past participletaken orders

Questions about take orders

What is take orders the alternative form of?
Take orders is the alternative form of take holy orders.

Words near take orders in the dictionary

  1. take one's tongue out of someone's ass
  2. take one's turn
  3. take oneself up by one's own ears
  4. take or pay
  5. take or pays
  6. take orders
  7. take out
  8. take out an onion
  9. take out in trade
  10. take out of context
  11. take out the stops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: take orders (page history and authors); take holy orders (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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