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minor orders

plural noun

  1. RC Church the four lower degrees of holy orders, namely porter, exorcist, lector, and acolyte Compare major orders
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Mark Harvey, head of terrestrial zoology at the Western Australian Museum, keeps spreadsheets of the minor orders of arachnids — "I have what my colleagues call 'cataloguers' disease,'" he joked — and his data showed an amblypygid explosion.

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When de Miranda went away to college in Rio de Janeiro and learned about the minor orders of arachnids, he saw a weird discrepancy.

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Mark Harvey, head of terrestrial zoology at the Western Australian Museum, keeps spreadsheets of the minor orders of arachnids—“I have what my colleagues call ‘cataloguers’ disease,’” he joked—and his data showed an amblypygid explosion.

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To become a “sworn brother,” Bosch would have had to qualify as one of the four grades of minor orders, which were doorkeeper, reader, acolyte and exorcist.

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Instead, Liszt took minor orders, concentrated his attention on church music, and henceforth spent his year between Rome, Weimar, and Budapest.

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