Etymology : Middle English, from ordre, n.
Pronunciation : or-d&r
Function : verb
Date : 13th century
1. arrangement; instruction; command; request for something; religious group. command; request something; arrange; manage. order\or"der\ , n. [oe. ordre, f. ordre, fr. l. ordo, ordinis. cf. ordain, ordinal.].
2. regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: (a) of material things, like the books in a library. (b) of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. (c) of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. the side chambers were thirty in order. xli.
3. bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. good order is the foundation of all good things.
4. right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
5. the customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. tiel. and, pregnant with his grander thought, brought the old order into doubt.
6. conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
7. that which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate. the church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish.
8. a command; a mandate; a precept; a direction. upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in england.
9. 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.
10. 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. taylor. various orders various ensigns bear. which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.
11. 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. the venerable order of the knights templars. w. scott.
12. 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.
13. (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.note: 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.
14. (nat. hist.) an assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the carnivora and insectivora are orders of mammalia.note: the linn?an artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. natural.
15. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system Of material things, like the books in a library.
16. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
17. Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
18. Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
19. The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
20. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
21. That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
22. A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end.
28. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
29. To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
30. To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
31. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
32. To give orders; to issue commands. putting in order; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans a degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" a body of rules followed by an assembly a command given by a superior that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London" a request for food or refreshment ; "I gave the waiter my order" taxonomic group containing one or more families a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict" established customary state ; "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" place in a certain order; "order these files" bring order to or into; "Order these files" make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" issue commands or orders for.
33. In Classical architecture, any of several styles defined by the particular type of column, base, capital, and entablature they use. There are five major orders: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian (all developed in Greece), and Tuscan and Composite (developed in Rome). The form of the capital is an order's most distinguishing characteristic. Both the Doric and Ionic orders originated in wooden temples. The Doric is squat and simple. The Ionic, distinguished by the scrolls, or volutes, on its capital, resembles a capital I. The Corinthian capital is more ornate, with carved acanthus leaves and scrolls. The Romans modified the Greek orders to produce the Tuscan (a simplified form of the Doric) and Composite (a combination of the Ionic and Corinthian) orders. See also colossal order. Calatrava Order of colossal order giant order Garter The Most Noble Order of the Order of the Legion of Honour money order order in council rules of order pecking order Teutonic Order.
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