Order
Definition of Order
Or´der | n. | 1. | | | 1. | Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system | | 2. | Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. | | 3. | The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. | | 4. | Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly. | | 5. | That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate. | | 6. | A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 12. | (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia. | | 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.| Money order | | (Bot.) See def. |
| | v. t. | 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. | | 2. | To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance. | | 3. | To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries. | | 4. | (Eccl.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. | | v. i. | 1. | To give orders; to issue commands. |
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