be in orders

Verb

 * 1) To be an ordained priest; to have taken the holy orders, the sacrament to become a priest
 * 2) * 1907,, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 18]:
 * [H]e was not at all the person to knock into a gutter, for though not in orders, he had the air of being on the verge of them, and his features, as well as his clothes, had the clerical cut.