得とく度ど

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

ordination; entering the priesthood; becoming a monk

Buddhist term for formally becoming a monk or nun through an ordination ceremony. Used as a noun or with する to describe the act of entering the priesthood.

• 彼かれは二十歳はたちで得とく度どした。

  He was ordained at the age of twenty.

• 得とく度ど式しきは厳おごそかに執とり行おこなわれた。

  The ordination ceremony was solemnly conducted.