1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for
use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative
body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering.
2. The state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a
state or condition.
What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a
whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means?
Coleridge.
3. That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism;
specif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the performance of the
functions necessary to life.
The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and
the earliest form of organization.
McKendrick.
Or"gan*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Organized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Organizing (?).] [Cf. F. organiser, Gr. &?;. See Organ.] 1. (Biol.) To
furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with
capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized
matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never
produce.
Ray.
2. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function,
act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; --
applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions
and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
This original and supreme will organizes the government.
Cranch.