Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for
disarming all the papists in England.
Clarendon.
7. Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction,
in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building,
a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are
large.
In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager
who abolished them.
Lamb.
8. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place,
or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or
class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or
other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the
higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
They are in equal order to their several ends.
Jer. Taylor.
Various orders various ensigns bear.
Granville.
Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of
crime.
Hawthorne.
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9. A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of
obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents
living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan
order.
Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me.
Shak.
The venerable order of the Knights Templars.
Sir W. Scott.
10. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop;
the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as,
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of
the ministry.
11. (Arch.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of
the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as
the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical
architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
The Greeks used three different orders, easy to distinguish, Doric,
Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans added the Tuscan, and changed the
Doric so that it is hardly recognizable, and also used a modified
Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on architecture
recognized five orders as orthodox or classical, -- Doric (the Roman
sort), Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of
Capital.
12. (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important
characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of
Mammalia.
The Linnæan artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in
the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. Natural
orders are groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of their
flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in botany) equivalent to
a family, and may include several tribes.
13. (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a
manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
14. (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the
same as the degree of its equation.
Artificial order or system. See Artificial classification, under
Artificial, and Note to def. 12 above. -- Close order (Mil.), the
arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between
them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in open order.
-- The four Orders, The Orders four, the four orders of mendicant
friars. See Friar. Chaucer. -- General orders (Mil.), orders issued
which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in
distinction from special orders. -- Holy orders. (a) (Eccl.) The
different grades of the Christian ministry; ordination to the ministry.
See def. 10 above. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of
conferring a special grace on those ordained. -- In order to, for the
purpose of; to the end; as means to.
The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our
eternal happiness.
Tillotson.
-- Minor orders (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in
sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. -- Money
order. See under Money. -- Natural order. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. --
Order book. (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered. (b)
(Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all orders are recorded
for the information of officers and men. (c) A book in the House of
Commons in which proposed orders must be entered. [Eng.] -- Order in
Council, a royal order issued with and by the advice of the Privy
Council. [Great Britain] -- Order of battle (Mil.), the particular
disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle. --
Order of the day, in legislative bodies, the special business appointed
for a specified day. -- Order of a differential equation (Math.), the
greatest index of differentiation in the equation. -- Sailing orders
(Naut.), the final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war
before a cruise. -- Sealed orders, orders sealed, and not to be opened
until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is
at sea. -- Standing order. (a) A continuing regulation for the conduct
of parliamentary business. (b) (Mil.) An order not subject to change by
an officer temporarily in command. -- To give order, to give command or
directions. Shak. -- To take order for, to take charge of; to make
arrangements concerning.
Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.
Shak.
Syn. -- Arrangement; management. See Direction.
Or"der (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordered (?); p pr. & vb. n. Ordering.]
[From Order, n.] 1. To put in order; to reduce to a methodical
arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end.
Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
To him that ordereth his conversation aright.
Ps. 1. 23.
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.
Milton.