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单词 old order of things
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old order of things
1. Usually with the. An old or outmoded method or system of doing things; spec. an old regime or government. Sometimes more fully old order of things. Cf. new order n.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > outdated system
old order1533
ancient regime1792
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. xcv For than were yt good to spare theim and speke them fayre, and suffer theym tyll they wolde waxe fewer of them selfe, and than after that, vse agaynste theym the lawis & the old order again.
a1618 W. Raleigh Cabinet-council (1658) xxv. 116 There is nothing more difficult, doubtful and dangerous then to attempt Innovation: for he that taketh in hand an enterprize of such quality, maketh all those his Enemies which lived well under the old order.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 120 The old order of Confirmation by Bishops, which was to be done upon Profession of the Faith.
1797 Pennsylvania Gaz. 13 Dec. Multitudes of poor and disaffected men..flock to the standard of Buonaparte; some from hatred to the old order of things, and more for the sake of obtaining subsistence.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 15 The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
1928 C. H. Dodd Authority of Bible ix. 196 Alexander's conquests had brought the old order to an end. There was a mingling of cultures, a cross-fertilization of East and West.
1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xvi. 501 Everybody gets the new rolling-news stations, so we've all watched the earthquakes together, the old order falling, live, as it happens.
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