ordern.
/ˈɔːdə/, U.S. /ˈɔrdər/ I. Any of the grades or ranks in an ordered or hierarchical structure (characterized by sequence).
1. Christian Church. Any of the nine grades of angels, according to medieval angelology. Also: any analogous class of spiritual or demonic beings. Now historical and poetic.The nine orders of angels are first fixed by Dionysius the Areopagite (Pseudo-Dionysius) in his treatise Celestial Hierarchies (5th cent.). The orders are divided there into three hierarchies, the first consisting of cherubim, seraphim, and thrones; the second of dominations, virtues, and powers; and the third of principalities, archangels, and angels. The names are derived from the mention of cherubim and seraphim in the Old Testament, and from words used by St Paul in Colossians 1:16, Ephesians 1:21. The idea of an organized hierarchy of angels seems to have originated in Jewish apocalyptic literature.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of
orderc1225
hierarchyc1380
princehooda1425
choir1641
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun] > good or evil > class of
order1621
c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Royal) (1938) 28 (MED) Engles..beoð aa biuore godd & seruið him eauer..Nihe ordres [c1225 Bodl. wordes; a1250 Titus woredes] þer beoð.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 13 Þer beoð niene englene ordes.
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 211 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 305 (MED) For ten ordres of Aungles þare weren i-makede þo, And þe teoþe ordre ful a-doun In-to pine and wo.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 430 Of angels wald he serued be Þat suld of ordres [a1400 Fairf. ordoures] haf thris thre.
c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 47 (MED) Alle ordris of holi spiritis, preie ȝe for us!
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 275 Off angellis all the ordour [1568 ordouris] nyne.
1559 D. Lindsay Dreme in Wks. (1931) I. 19 In ordowis nyne thir spretis glorious Ar deuydit.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 61 Those orders of good and bad Divells, which the Platonists hold.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 885 As they went, Shaded with branching Palme, each order bright, Sung Triumph, and him sung Victorious King. View more context for this quotation
a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 35 Nine heavenly orders enter one by one, The lowest shin'd much brighter than the sun.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 515 A subordinate order in the heavenly Hierarchy.
1872 A. T. de Vere Legends St. Patrick 49 Down knelt in Heaven the Angelic Orders Nine.
a1966 D. Schwartz Last & Lost Poems (1989) iv. 90 The comments of the angelic orders as they looked down upon the Creation.
1994 Speculum 69 545 There are..nine intervals in music just as there are nine orders of angels.
2. Christian Church.† d. order of wedlock n. Obsolete the sacrament of marriage.
a. A grade or rank in the Christian ministry, or in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.The orders of the Roman Catholic Church are those of bishop, priest, deacon, acolyte, and reader, although bishop is not always considered to be a separate order from priest. The orders of subdeacon, exorcist, and ostiarius or doorkeeper also existed until their suppression in 1972. Those of bishop, priest, deacon, and (since the 13th cent.) subdeacon, are the greater, sacred, or holy orders; the others are the minor orders ( minor orders). The Anglican Church recognizes only the three holy orders of bishop, priest, and deacon. In most branches of the Orthodox Church the orders recognized are those of bishop, priest, deacon, subdeacon, and anagnost or reader, to which some add that of singer (ψαλτής).
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > [noun] > minor
petty orders1728
minor orders1845
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 449 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 119 Ȝif a clerk hath ane Man a-slawe, oþur strong þeffþe i-do And he mouwe þanne desordeined beo..heo wollez þanne mis-don al day..Luyte heom wolde rechche to leosen heore ordre so.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 26151 For-qui þat kay es giuen to nan Bot preist þat has þis order [a1400 Fairf. ordour] tan.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 162 Þe x fote depthe is betwen a womman & a man of ordre, & þe heyere ordre, þe deppere synne.
c1480 (a1400) St. Philip 90 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 178 Þane prestis & deknys þare mad he..al þe remaynyne to do, þat efferyte þare ordyr to.
a1500 ( Vision E. Leversedge in Notes & Queries Somerset & Dorset (1905) 9 32 (MED) J charge the..that thou never..be man of religion, ne prest, ne take ȝou no maure ordir vpon the then thou hast by fore this tyme, but conteneu thi life as a clarke.
1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. C.jv Diuerse Orders of ministers in the churche.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1011/2 And so orderlye procedyng vnto all the other orders, disgraded hym from the order of Bennet and Collet, from the order of Exorciste, from ye Lectorship, and last of all, from the office of Dore keper.
1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie i. vii. 26 An excellent Sanctity, and a spotlesse Recollection of life, in their Orders of Religion.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xi. 138 Divers having been made deacons, after long and good tryal..were admitted into priests orders.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. xii. 252 The clergy were divided into two classes, one of inferior clerks in minor orders, and employed as lectors, cantors, acolythists, exorcists, and doorkeepers; and the other of clerks in holy orders, deacons and mass-thanes.
1884 Sat. Rev. 12 July 49/2 The proposed scheme of starting a new order of ministers in the Church of England under the strangely paradoxical designation..of ‘lay-deacons’.
1901 F. Procter & W. H. Frere New Hist. Bk. Common Prayer xvi. 650 The Sacramentary of Serapion gives forms of ordination only for the three sacred orders.
1994 Church Times 30 Dec. 8/2 Classical Anglican doctrine on the episcopate is not prelatical. It is minimalist. It recognises two orders, not three, in the Church: a presbyteral and a deaconal order.
b. The rank, status, or position of a member of the clergy or ordained minister of the Church. Now always in plural (frequently as holy orders). to take orders: to enter the ministry of the Church, to be ordained. in (holy) orders: in the position of an ordained member of the clergy or minister of the Church; so in deacon's orders, in priest's (also full) orders.This has some affinities with sense 6 (see quot. 1597). But the plural form in holy orders, etc., evidently refers to the different orders within the ministry, rather than to the ministerial or clerical order as a class or body of men.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > be ordained [verb (intransitive)]
to take ordersc1300
society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [adjective] > in orders
yhaded900
hadeda1100
in (holy) ordersc1300
orderedc1330
ordaineda1382
ordinee?a1400
consecrated1549
c1300 St. Wulstan (Laud) 7 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 71 (MED) Of þis bischop Briȝtei, seint wolston is ordre nam..so þat he preost bi-cam.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 891 Folk that ben entred in to ordre as subdekne, dekne or preest or hospitaliers.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27252 If he in hali order be.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 28365 In dedly sin i tok, vnscriuen, Myn orders sua war þai me giuen.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 32 Here hole order when þat þai toke, Þai where exampnyd apon a boke.
1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (1821) II. 152 He that is within ordowis sall nocht ansuere afoir ane prophane iuge.
1580 J. Hay Certain Demandes §52 Quhy deny the ordoure to be ane Sacrament.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H1 Let him straight take Orders, and bee a Church-man.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1972) VII. 50 My brother John..is to go into Orders this Lent.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 50. 326 Persons, even in Holy Orders,..have stood unconcerned.
1721 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman 4 When they have taken a Degree..they get into Orders as soon as they can.
1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed ii. 8 A likely Set of Men for bringing back God's Truth..who, so far from having any Orders or Mission, had not so much as Baptism.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ix. 184 Yes, I shall take orders soon after my father's return. View more context for this quotation
1833 H. Martineau Three Ages iii. 107 A master of arts, in full orders, is desirous of a curacy.
1865 S. Wilberforce in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1882) III. 166 Brotherhoods of unordained men not in Holy Orders.
1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow iv. 88 He..had taken orders, and had received from Mr Gladstone a small country living in Yorkshire.
1988 F. Tomlin T. S. Eliot ii. 40 The Roman view was that Anglican orders were null and void.
c. The conferment of holy orders; the rite of ordination (one of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church). (Letters of) Order (also Orders) n. [compare post-classical Latin littere ordinum letters of ordination (14th cent., 1686 in British sources)] a certificate of ordination given by a bishop to a priest or deacon.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > [noun]
orderc1300
society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > [noun] > major (holy)
hadc897
orderc1300
sacred orders1726
society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun]
hadingc1000
sacring1297
orderc1300
orderingc1350
consecrationa1387
ordination?a1475
ordaining1560
society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun] > certificate of
(Letters of) Order (also Orders)c1300
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 335 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 116 (MED) Of is ordres he was ful streit, and he was in grete fere, For-to ordeinen ani Man bote he þe betere were.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 6 (MED) Cristendom, and bisschoppying, Penauns, and eke spousinge, Godes body ine forme of bred, Ordre, and Aneliinge, Þes seuene Heþ holicherche sacremens.
c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 15 (MED) Þese ben..sacramentes of Holy Chirche: þe first, baptyme..þe sacrament of enelyng, ordere, and of wedlok.
a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 532 (MED) Þe vij sacramentes of holy chyrche:..penaunce þat ys verrey, Ordere of prest, and spousayle, [etc.].
a1500 Craft of Deyng (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 173 The sacrament of penans and schrift, the ordour of presthed &matromo[n]ȝe.
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxxv None were admytted to cure whyche had not the letters of hys orders.
c1590 in T. G. Law Catholic Tractates (1901) 251 We confes not only the sacrament of ordre in general bot also al the pairtis of the samin.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxv. 284 The third Sacrament rejected by this Article, is Orders.
1699 Gov. Nicholson in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 66 Acquaint the minister or ministers..that they bring with them their priests and Deacons Orders.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) 20 Mar. I. 206 A friend..has lost his letters of Order.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 120 Go, cast your orders at your Bishop's feet.
1852 W. F. Hook Church Dict. (1871) 444 Letters of orders are the bishop's certificate of having ordained a clergyman, either as priest or deacon.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 17 In the sacrament of Orders there is given a grace, whereby a priest will always have a perpetual assistance for the discharge of his office.
1977 Christian 4 31 There are two priesthoods... One is conferred on all, in baptism; the other on some, in the sacrament of holy order.
2003 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Nassau & Suffolk ed.) 22 The sacrament of holy orders does not mystically supply the talents and virtues that a new priest may lack.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > marriage service
order of wedlockc1395
matrimonya1625
marriage service1698
nuptialities1863
c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1347 O blisful ordre of wedlok, precious Thow art, so murye and eek so vertuous.
a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 3 (MED) He wexe full of viciousness yn his lyvyng..yn brekyng the ordire of weddelok, by his fowle ambicious lust of that voluptenus lust of advoutre.
3. gen. A rank, row, or series.† a. One of several parallel rows behind or above one another. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row
reweOE
rowc1225
ranka1325
rengec1330
ordera1382
rulec1384
rangea1450
ray1481
line1557
tier1569
train1610
string1713
rail1776
windrow1948
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxviii. 17 Þou schalt putte in it foure orders [L. ordines] of stones.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 238v Barlich..haþ þat name of ordo, ffor he haþ som tyme in þe ȝere sixe ordres and reules of greynes.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 39 (MED) Þe succosite of þe mete þat ascapiþ on ordure of miseraike veynes be y-taken of anoþir.
a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 153 Also ther is another fyshe called tibron wch is a grete fyshe wt a grete hede, and hath ij ordres of teethe one above another.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 27 Thycke cloudes ouer vs, and commonlye a double order of cloudes, one aboue an other.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 591 It beareth 3. orders or rowes of hornes on the head.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 851 Euerie side had these fiue orders or rankes of barres.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 197 [It] hath no other Ornament besides one Single Order of Columns.
1863 P. S. Worsley Poems & Transl. 9 And wheels, a countless order, each like each.
b. Physics. Each of a successive series of spectra or fringes formed by the diffraction or interference of light; (hence) a positive number characterizing a particular spectrum or fringe, equal to the number of wavelengths by which the optical paths of successive contributing rays differ.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] > spectrum > in a series
order1704
series1886
1704 I. Newton Opticks ii. i. 6 The third Circuit or Order was purple, blue, green, yellow, and red.
1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 244 We had here four Orders of Colours, and perhaps the beginning of a fifth, for what..I call the Purple, is a Mixture of the Purple of each of the upper Series with the Red of the next below it.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xii. 103 Seven rings, or rather seven circular spectra or orders of colours.
1874 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 47 194 In considering the influence of the number of lines (n) and the order of the spectrum (m), we will suppose that the ruling [of the diffraction grating] is accurate.
1953 J. A. Spink & E. Feigl tr. Z. G. Pinsker Electron Diffraction ii. 26 We obtain..nλ = 2d sin θ, n being the order of the reflection [sc. of electrons from a crystal]. This gives the number of whole wavelengths corresponding to the path difference for waves scattered by two neighbouring parallel planes of the direct lattice.
1988 R. A. Dunlap Exper. Physics x. 264 The resolving power..depends on the number of lines in the grating and the order of the fringe observed.
c. Architecture. In Gothic and Romanesque architecture: each of a series of mouldings on an arch. (See also sense 9.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > series of
order1835
1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages 36 The archway..consists of three orders of square-edged banded arches, with two interposed nook-shafts.
1845 F. A. Paley Gothic Mouldings 10 An arch of two or more orders, is one which is recessed by so many successive planes or retiring arches, each placed behind and beneath the next before it.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 224 This suggested the system of sub-ordinating the rims, or recessing them, one behind the other, so as to divide the arch into what are called orders.
1951 H. Braun Introd. Eng. Mediaeval Archit. iv. 74 English builders of the eleventh century discovered that they could turn their arches in widening rings, known as ‘orders’, each order acting as a centering to the slightly wider one above it, until the full thickness of the wall above was attained.
1991 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 55 The contrast between the plain inner curve and the deeply moulded orders of the decorative arcade reflects the different function of these two components.
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a. Mathematics. The degree of complexity of an analytical or geometrical form, equation, expression, operator, etc., as denoted by an ordinal or cardinal number (e.g. the number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation). Also as the second element in compounds, preceded by an ordinal numeral, forming adjectives denoting the order of an expression, equation, etc.The order of a plane curve corresponds to the degree of its equation. A second-order derivative is a derivative of a derivative. A second-order (or third-order, etc.) infinitesimal is one of the form 1/ x2 (or 1/ x3, etc.), where x is infinite. of the same order: (of two variables) having a ratio which tends to a finite number as they both tend to zero or infinity. to the first (also second, etc.) order: neglecting quantities of order greater than one (or two, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > geometrical property
duality1532
magnitude1570
solidity1570
order1706
symmetry1823
unicursality1887
self-coincidence1902
closure1905
non-orientability1938
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > the highest power of the variable
order1706
degree1727
the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets > relating to order of magnitude
of the same order1706
to the first (also second, etc.) order1706
of the order of1937
1706 H. Ditton Inst. Fluxions 22 An Infinitesimal of another Order or Degree.
1726 E. Stone New Math. Dict. at Oscillation Order of Curve-Lines. Sir I. Newton..gives an Enumeration of Geometrical Lines of the third Order, as thus.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Curve Algebraic Curves of the same Kind or Order, are those whose Equations rise to the same Dimension.
1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. xxxvii. 408 The curves in which the celestial bodies move by the force of gravitation are only lines of the second order.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 14/1 Two infinitesimals α, β are said to be of the same order if the fraction β/α tends to a finite limit. If β/αn tends to a finite limit, β is called an infinitesimal of the nth order in comparison with α.
1895 E. B. Elliott Algebra of Quantics 1 The degree of a quantic in the variables x, y, z..is generally spoken of as its order.
1908 G. H. Hardy Course Pure Math. v. 169 We shall say that ϕ(x) is of the kth order of greatness when x is small if ϕ(x)/x−k = xkϕ(x) tends to a limit different from zero as x tends to 0.
1937 E. C. Kemble Fund. Princ. Quantum Mech. xi. 384 In order to get the second-order corrections to Εk and Ψk we differentiate Eq. (47·2) twice with respect to λ and then set λ equal to zero.
1971 Nature 19 Feb. 522/2 Talk of the eclipse being an unusual strain to the Earth is idle nonsense when eclipse type conditions prevail to first order twice every lunar month.
1990 T. Petrie & J. Randall Connections, Definite Forms, & Four-manifolds vi. 83 A connection is a first-order linear differential operator and a virtual connection differs from a connection by a zeroth-order operator.
b. order of magnitude n. a class in a system of classification determined by size, each class being a number of times (typically ten) greater or smaller than the one before; a range between one power of ten and the next. Also: the order (sense 4a) of an infinitesimal or an infinite number. Also attributive (with hyphens).
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > scale > order of magnitude
order of magnitude1783
1783 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 255 Sagittæ is larger than α and β, though placed in a lower order of magnitude.
1840 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 130 194 It is manifest that no continuous angular motion of the whole mass could thus be produced, at least of the same order of magnitude as the whole oscillatory motion.
1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 143 The number of surnames extinguished becomes a number of the same order of magnitude as the total number at first starting in N.
1937 J. H. Michell & M. H. Belz Elem. Math. Anal. I. i. 94 Two numbers (or quantities) are of the same order of magnitude when their ratio is neither a large number nor a small fraction.
1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. Solar Syst. v. 157 The general size..would be expected to be of the order of the width of the stream. An order-of-magnitude estimate of this can be made in the following way.
1974 Sci. Amer. June 27/1 These processes multiply the power per unit area by 14 orders of magnitude from 105 watts per square centimeter..to 1019 watts per square centimeter.
1990 Managem. Computing Nov. 13/3 In another ten years, two more order-of-magnitude increases will take us to 300 and then 3,000 mips (millions of instructions per second) per microprocessor.
c. Mathematics.
(a) The number of rows or columns in a square matrix or determinant.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > array > matrix > dimensions of
order1844
nullity1884
1844 Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 8 77 Consider the function U = x (αξ + βη +..) +..x′ (α′ξ + β′η +…) + (n lines, and n terms in each line)... The determinant..may be expressed as a determinant of the nth order.
1882 T. Muir Treat. Theory of Determinants i. 6 When the determinant has four, that is 2x2, elements, it is said to be of the second order or degree; [etc.].
1934 W. L. Cowley Adv. Pract. Math. iv. 68 An example of a fourth order determinant is given in (37).
1966 Math. Rev. 31 36/1 Matrices M of even order behave somewhat differently from those of odd order.
1991 Struct. Change & Econ. Dynamics 2 93 Let A be a square matrix of order n and assume that its eigenvalues are all distinct.
(b) The number of elements in a group.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > in abstract algebra > groups > quality
order1878
representation1897
realization1954
Clifford module1964
1878 A. Cayley in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 1 51 A set of symbols α, β, γ..such that the product αβ of each two of them..is a symbol of the set, is a group... When the number of the symbols (or terms) is = n, then the group is of the nth order.
1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vi. 147 Every element of a finite group G has as order a divisor of the order of G.
1965 E. M. Patterson & D. E. Rutherford Elem. Abstr. Algebra ii. 36 The set of all permutations of 1, 2, 3,.., n forms a group with respect to multiplication... It is a finite group of order n! and it plays an important part in the theory of finite groups.
1992 G. Ellis Rings & Fields vii. 123 This group of eight elements is usually denoted by D4, and referred to as the dihedral group of order 8.
(c) The smallest positive integer m for which gm is equal to the identity element of a group, g being any given element of the group.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > in abstract algebra > groups
syntheme1844
group1854
substitution group1861
quaternion group1881
subgroup1881
Abelian group1892
permutation group1893
quotient group1893
factor group1895
order1897
symmetric group1897
point group1903
Sylow subgroup1905
module1927
Lie group1939
symmetry group1956
Weyl group1961
stabilizer1965
1897 W. Burnside Theory Groups of Finite Order ii. 14 Let S be an operation of a group of finite order N... If Sm+ 1 is the first of the series [sc.S, S2, S3,..] which is the same as S,..then..Sm = 1... The integer m is called the order of the operation S.
1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vi. 147 Every element of a finite group G has as order a divisor of the order of G.
1968 I. D. Macdonald Theory of Groups iii. 45 A periodic group is a group in which every element has finite order.
1990 Proc. London Math. Soc. 60 269 The full Sylow 3-subgroup of G is contained in F4(2), which has just three classes of elements of order 3.
d. Chemistry. The sum of the exponents of the concentrations of reactants, or the exponent of that of any particular reactant, in the expression for the rate of a chemical reaction. Frequently in compounds with preceding ordinal number.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > reaction rate > sum of reactant exponents
order1902
1902 H. C. Jones Elements Physical Chem. ix. 465 Although there are only two substances, there are three molecules involved in the reaction, and we would expect it to be a reaction of the third order.
1933 E. A. Moelwyn-Hughes Kinetics of Reactions in Solution vii. 219 Ionic reactions have occasionally been found to be of a higher kinetic order than is now regarded as possible.
1950 W. J. Moore Physical Chem. xvii. 514 This is also a second-order reaction. It is said to be first-order with respect toC2H5Br, first-order with respect to(C2H5)3N, and second-order over-all.
1968 R. O. C. Norman Princ. Org. Synthesis iii. 78 The decarbonylation of acetaldehyde is of non-integral order but contains both unimolecular and bimolecular steps.
1992 Nature 3 Dec. 448/1 Here kf is the second-order rate coefficient for recombination of HO2 radicals..and kl is the first-order rate coefficient for physical removal.
e. of the order of: (a) Mathematics (also on, in the order of, of order): of the same order of magnitude as; (b) gen. (also in the order of): in the region of; somewhere about; to the extent of.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > approximate quantity or amount > approximately (an amount) [phrase]
plus minus1611
or soa1616
a matter of1645
there or (and) thereaboutsa1696
the matter of1829
somewhere about1846
in the neighbourhood of1847
in the region of1865
of the order of1903
give or take1958
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets > relating to order of magnitude
of the same order1706
to the first (also second, etc.) order1706
of the order of1937
1903 O. Lodge Mod. Views on Matter 7 Their mass is of the order one-thousandth of the atomic mass of hydrogen.
1937 J. H. Michell & M. H. Belz Elem. Math. Anal. I. i. 94 A number is said to be of order 10n if its ratio to 10n is neither large nor small.
1947 R. L. Wakeman Chem. Commercial Plastics xxvi. 786 Concentrations of catalyst in the order of 1 per cent.
1958 Times 10 Dec. 10/4 Their radioactivity was of the order of tens of millicuries.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics x. 422 Specific impulses on the order of 3000 lb-sec/lb are possible.
1970 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. 21/1 (advt.) A salary in the order of £1,500 is envisaged.
1989 Business Franchise July–Sept. 80/4 How much that springboard to success should cost will be in the order of £20,000 initially.
1992 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 2 Jan. c9/4 These events are thought to be the result of relatively small-mass objects of the order of 1/10th the mass of the sun.
f. Chiefly Logic and Philosophy. Each of the ranks or levels in a (non-mathematical) hierarchy in which every member except those in the lowest rank is a function of members of the next lower rank. Frequently in compounds with preceding ordinal number.
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1908 B. Russell in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 30 238 Propositions of order n..will be such as contain propositions of order n − 1, but of no higher order, as apparent variables.
1936 Mind 45 170 Necessary propositions are, thus, second-order propositions, which implicitly define ‘proposition’ by stating the properties of anything that is a proposition.
1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic 336 The hierarchy of orders prevents us from speaking about all functions or properties of a given type, permitting us to speak only about all first order functions of a given type, or all second order functions of a given type, etc.
1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic 337 A proposition is of order n + 1 if it contains a quantifier on a propositional variable of order n but contains no quantifier on any propositional variable of order m where m ≥ n.
g. Physics and Chemistry. An integer (usually 1 or 2) characterizing a change of phase of a substance, equal to the order of the lowest-order derivatives of the free energy that exhibit a discontinuity at the change. [After the similar use of German Ordnung, introduced by P. Ehrenfest 1933 (see quot. 1933).]
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > phases > [noun] > phase transitions > order
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1933 Proc. Sect. Sci. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam 36 152 G may be a function of p and T which suffers along a λ-curve (Fig. 3) a discontinuity of the second order1, so that along that curve..ΔG = 0, whereas the differential coefficients of G make a jump. [1Note] Cf. P. Ehrenfest. Proceedings of this meeting. [i.e. pp. 153–7 (in Ger.)].
1946 Nature 28 Dec. 924/2 At low temperatures both crystalline and amorphous states [of rubber] give place to the glass-hard condition. The transition to the glassy state—the so-called second-order transition—is discussed.
1968 C. G. Kuper Introd. Theory Superconductivity ii. 23 The superconducting transition in the absence of a magnetic field is of second order (Ehrenfest 1933). In other words, the specific heat is discontinuous but there is no latent heat.
1991 J. M. G. Cowie Polymers (BNC) (ed. 2) 258 The glass transition is not a first order transition, in the thermodynamic sense, as no discontinuities are observed when the entropy or volume of the polymer are measured as a function of temperature.
II. A rank or class of people or things (characterized by similarity of structure but not necessarily by sequence).† 6. A group of people of the same profession, occupation, etc., constituting or viewed as a separate class in the community. Obsolete.
5. A body of people living by common consent under the same religious, moral, or social regulations and discipline.
a. A religious society or fraternity, as an order of monks (also nuns, friars), etc. Frequently with distinguishing name, as the Benedictine (also Cistercian, Franciscan, etc.) order. [Compare post-classical Latin ordo monachorum (8th cent.), ordo monasticus (9th cent.), ordo Cistercii (1147 in a British source), ordo griseus Franciscan (c1250 in a British source), ordo Sancti Augustini (1242 in a British source), ordo Sancti Benedicti (1306, 1499 in British sources).] Formerly sometimes also applied to the rule or constitution of such a society, or to monasticism as an institution.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > [noun]
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religion?c1225
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religious society1610
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic rule > order observing particular rule
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 7 Gef ani vnweote askið ou of wat ordre ȝe beoð..ondswereð of seint iames.
c1300 St. Dunstan (Harl.) 49 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 35 (MED) Þer was ordre of monekes er seint patrik com And er seint Austyn to Engelonde brouȝte cristendom.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 55 I font þere Freres all þe Foure Ordres.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 40 Chanouns of þe ordre of saynt Austyne.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1241 A ȝong monk als, with him in ordour stud.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlvijv The order of Monkes is the inuention of man.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 131 It was the Friar of Orders gray. View more context for this quotation
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. i. 2 To follow the Call..from his Divine Majesty unto this Order.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour IV. 322 The famous abbey of La Trappe, of the Cistercian order.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. vi. 445 The Jesuits, as well as the other monastic orders, are indebted for the existence of their order not to the wisdom of their founder, but to his enthusiasm.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. i. i. 8 The Friends of Light..were not an order, and still less a Church.
1902 Daily Chron. 2 Sept. 5/6 The murderer was a tertiary lay brother of the Dominican order.
1977 M. Girouard Sweetness & Light ii. 33 The Community of the Holy Name, an order of Anglican nuns founded by Father Herbert in Vauxhall.
1999 M. Greenwood et al. Ireland: Rough Guide ii. xvi. 559 The Cistercian order, of which Mellifont was the mother house in Ireland.
b. A fraternity or society of knights bound by a common rule of life, and having a combined military and monastic character. Now historical.Generally applied to those formed in the Middle Ages for the defence or propagation of Christianity, or the defence of the Holy Land, as the Knights Templars, Knights Hospitallers, Knights of the Teutonic Order, Knights of the Round Table, etc.
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society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > order of knights > [noun]
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Templary Knights1617
Teutonic Order1617
Templarya1661
Teutonic1693
society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Knights Templar > [noun]
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Templary Knights1617
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c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 335 (MED) Thus ben knihtes gadered of unkinde blod And envenimeth that ordre that shold be so god and hende.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 465 Aboute þis tyme bygan þe ordre of Templeres [L. ordo Templariorum].
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 233 (MED) Som tyme þer was a preste of þe Templer ordur.
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. ciij The hospytelers and Templars were two fygtinge orders, instituted firste in the countreye of Palestyne..for the only defence of Christen pylgrymes goyng to and fro.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. vii. 106 That king Arthure first builded the Castle of Windsour, and there founded the order of the round Table.
1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iii. x. 151 Martin De Golin, Master of the Teutonick Order, was taken Prisoner.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Malta Knights of [Malta]: An Order of Military Religious, who have bore various Names; as..Knights of Rhodes, Order of Malta, Religion of Malta, &c.
1839 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 670/1 Pope Celestine III..conferred on them the title of Knights of the Teutonic Order.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 249 That fair Order of my Table Round, A glorious company, the flower of men.
1977 O. Neubecker Heraldry Sources, Symbols & Meaning 214 The order was to consist of 500 knights, forming the backbone of the national army.
1994 Kindred Spirit Autumn 36/3 The name St John's wort comes from the use of the herb to heal the wounds of the knights of the St John's Order in the Crusade battles.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > persons of same profession, occupation, or pursuits
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league1935
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 3 Kings x. 5 Ordris [L. ordines] of þe seruytouris.
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 416 To grounde soche ordiris of beggers.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvii. 228 Ministeriall power..seuereth them that haue it from other men and maketh them a speciall order consecrated vnto the seruice of the most high.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. i. 26 The Archbishop Of Canterbury, accompanied with other Learned, and Reuerend Fathers of his Order . View more context for this quotation
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 124 A generous though transient enthusiasm diffused it the military order.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 92 The spirit of the whole clerical order rose against this injustice.
7. † b. A specific rank in the state. Obsolete.† c. As a mass noun: rank or position in the abstract. Obsolete.
a. A social class or division consisting of persons of the same status (esp. viewed in relation to other higher or lower classes); a social division, grade, or stratum.In later use chiefly in plural, esp. in the lower orders: those of low social status; the working class; the poor (frequently derogatory or humorous). the higher orders: those of high social status; the rich.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade
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station1842
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echelon1950
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [noun] > collectively
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the lower orders1679
worses1857
lesser breeds1897
lower depths1902
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 25268 Yong and ald, bath mare and less, Of alkin ordre þat here es.
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 172 (MED) Nowe we muste advyse us what thyngis we may seye that be profytable in gevyng examples to euerychone of theis estates to lyve well and truely aftir his ordre.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 52 Al statys ordurys & degres..in our cuntrey.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 105 The Scottis peple is deuydet in thrie ordouris.
1679 J. Br. Jesuite Countermin'd 33 The garish display of a volatile Fancy..is for the most part predominant among the lower orders of Mankind.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 436. ⁋1 A Place of no small Renown for the Gallantry of the lower Order of Britons, namely..the Bear-Garden.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. iii. 213 I began now to esteem myself a Being of a higher Order than I had ever before conceived. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ix. 287 Controversies, that arise among the lower Orders of the English Gentry, at Horse-races, Cock matches, and other public Places. View more context for this quotation
1776 S. Foote Bankrupt iii. 77 All orders concur to give up a great public benefit, for the sake and security of private honour and peace.
1796 G. M. Woodward Eccentric Excurs. 14 The adjoining skittle-ground is filled with people of the lower order (according to fashionable denomination).
a1809 H. Cowley Which is Man? (1812) iii. i. 34 In the state of Modern Manners, we get them if we can from higher Orders than Sempstresses.
1823 H. Ravelin Lucubrations 317 By all classes of society, and by the middle orders in particular.
1842 F. W. Faber Foreign Churches ii. 268 It has been asserted..that among the higher orders of society in the Papal States another party has been formed.
1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party i. 8 We find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.
1893 J. Adderley Stephen Remarx i. 2 That part of the Catechism is written for the lower orders.
1939 J. S. Furnivall Netherlands India xiii. 446 One finds a plural society also in..Siam, where Natives, Chinese and Europeans have distinct economic functions, and live apart as separate social orders.
1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage ii. 76/1 The commoners whom the higher orders referred to as stinkards.
1996 R. Drewe Drowner (1998) 103 The lower orders might be off to make their bundle as barmaids and prostitutes.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > definite rank
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?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. iv. 237 The kyng..caste hym to transporten upon al the ordre of the senat the gilt of his real majeste.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum Pref. 2 The most High and Sacred Order of Kings, which is the Ordinance of God himself.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. ii. 112 I made a speech to the order [of baronets of England] at the Clarendon; there were four hundred of us.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 540/1 Early in the 11th century the order of ‘gentlemen’ as a separate class seems to be forming as something new.
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social status1833
standpoint1875
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 506 These were the prime in order and in might. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 586 All the graduated scale Of order, from the chariot to the plough.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 217 What care I for any name? What for order or degree?
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 275 At one period aristocracy and government are intolerant of the poor and of liberty—at another, the populace are intolerant of rank and order.
8.
a. An institution, modelled partly on the medieval and crusading orders of knights and monks but usually founded by a monarch or government, which confers an honour or honours for merit on those appointed to it; (hence) the honour conferred by such an institution. Frequently with capital initial and distinguishing word or phrase, as Order of the Bath, of the Garter, of Merit, etc.: see the second element.order of the boot: see boot n.3 1c.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > order
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Order of Merit1799
1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 346/2 The honurable Ordre of the Gartier.
?1457 J. Hardyng Chron. (Lansd.) in E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey (1927) 236 (MED) The Emperour of Rome..Was with the kynge and made by grete encheson Of the Garter a knyght..And to the reule and ordreur sworne and bounde.
1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 177 (heading) Lord, Barnard Stewart, lord of Aubigny..consaloure..to..Loys, king of France, knyght of his ordoure, capitane of the kepyng of his body.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxv The maner is, that kynges with the swordes drawen, shall strike softely, the shoulders of them that desyre the ordre.
1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 6 He..wore a great chayne like the Collar of some Order.
a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Notices Sc. Affairs (1848) II. 808 The knights of the noble order of the thistle or St. Andrew.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) IV. iii. 121 He..painted the portraits of the knights of the Bath, on the revival of that order.
1813 Duke of Wellington Let. to Sir Isaac Heard 9 June in Dispatches (1838) X. 429 Different titles and orders of Knighthood..conferred upon me by the Spanish and Portuguese governments.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. i. 10 The order of the Golden Fleece, of Burgundy; the proudest and most coveted, at that day, of all the military orders of knighthood.
1919 J. Conrad Arrow of Gold ii. iv He..had a broad ribbon of some order across his shirt front.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at White, Sir George Stuart In 1905 he was awarded the order of merit, and was made governor of Chelsea Hospital.
1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East (B.B.C.) 6 Aug. FE/6186/A1/6 Owen Lattimore, the American Mongolist, has been awarded the Order of the Polar Star.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Jan. 20/1 He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia..and even mentioned as a potential first president of Australia.
b. The badge or insignia representing or demonstrating membership of an order of knighthood, honour, or merit.
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society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > insignia of order
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ribbon1651
regalia1676
1538 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer of Scotl. (1905) VI. 394 For mending of the Kingis ordour and target.
1539 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 49 Item the ordoure of the Empriour with the goldin fleis.
a1623 in A. J. Mill Mediaeval Plays in Scotl. (1927) 207 For making the scepter St. Andro and St. George with the ordour of the thrissell.
1673 London Gaz. No. 780/1 The Ceremony of investing the Prince Savelli..with the Order of the Golden Fleece.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4650/2 To whom he will carry the Order of the Black Eagle.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxiii. 132 This lady wears the order of St. Andrew, which is a blue ribbon.
1818 J. Keats Let. 14 Oct. (1958) I. 396 No sensation is created by Greatness but by the number of orders a Man has at his Button holes.
1874 A. Helps Social Pressure (1875) i. 3 A distinguished foreigner. Lots of orders on his coat; an Austrian, I think.
a1885 A. Gilchrist Cent. Guild Hobby Horse (1887) 15 He stands there in gloomy black doublet with the order of the golden fleece round his neck.
1986 Observer 9 Nov. 29/3 His well-groomed figure, gaudy with orders, bustling between the seats of the mighty.
c. More generally: a fraternity, society, or charitable association; esp. the Freemasons, or an organization modelled upon them.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > a brotherhood
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fraternal order1862
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. 316 Into which Society [of Freemasons] when any are admitted, they call a meeting..which must consist at lest of 5 or 6 of the Ancients of the Order.
1725 Two Lett. in Grand Myst. Freemasons (ed. 2) 13 The Venerable Order of Gormogons having been brought into England by a Chinese Mandarin.
1847 G. Oliver (title) The golden remains of the early masonic writers, illustrating the institutes of the order.
1922 L. Mumford in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 6 In every American city, small or big, Odd Fellows,..Elks,..and other orders without number..found for themselves a prominent place.
1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 20 Jan. 25/5 One reason people join the Loyal Order of the Moose is for ‘family protection’.
9. † b. A system classifying the arrangement of architectural columns on the basis of their distance apart. Obsolete. rare.
a. Architecture. An architectural system or style in which the components of a building are assembled according to certain uniform established proportions; (Classical Architecture) any of the five styles of architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite) based on the proportions of columns, type of capitals, amount of decoration, etc. Also in extended use.The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian are the original Greek orders; the Tuscan and Composite are Roman modifications of these.
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the world > space > shape > symmetry or regularity > [noun] > system of
order1563
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > unit of proportion based on column diameter > proportioning by > spacing of columns
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intercolumnation1757
intercolumniation1847
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Fiv These three orders of pillers Dorica, Ionica, Corinthia, to be vsed as folowith.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 30 There are five Orders of Pillers, according to their dignity and perfection.
1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. viii. 32 The Chapters seem to be a mixture between that [sc. the Ionick], and the Dorick Order.
1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 123 A Colonade of 48 Corinthian Pillars supporting the upper part of the Building which is to be adorn'd with the like Number of Pilasters of the same Order.
1782 W. Gilpin Observ. River Wye (1789) 82 There are orders of architecture in mountains as well as in palaces.
1804 B. H. Latrobe Let. 5 Aug. in Corr. & Misc. Papers (1984) I. 528 The rules that determine the proportions of what is called the orders, were..arbitrary, among the ancients... Palladio..endeavored to establish fixed rules for the most minute parts of the orders.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 2 Just as the last orders of Gothic architecture were the development of the first.
1951 H. Braun Introd. Eng. Mediaeval Archit. v. 91 The history of the development of classical Greek and Roman architecture is studied by means of the Orders.
1993 J. S. Curl Georgian Archit. ix. 193 Georgian design for death was rooted in the Orders and in the architectural language of Greece and Rome.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > arrangement of parts
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1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Aiv The placing of the fiue orders, namely, areostylos, diastylos, eustylos, sistylos, and picnostylos.
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Fiv The fifth and last order is that which Vitruuius calleth Picnostylos.
10. A class, group, kind, or sort of people, animals, or things, distinguished from others by character, quality or importance; a type or category.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class
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1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. E 2v Who as they affirme when hee purposed to make the worlde, made first other goddes of a principall order to bee as meanes and instruments to bee vsed in the creation and gouernment to follow.
1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable i. 1 There are derived, from this action of trauelling, two orders of Trauellers, Regular, and Irregular.
1725 New Canting Dict. Badgers, a Crew of desperate Varlets... The Eighteenth Order of Villains.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 62 Good Men may naturally unite, not only amongst themselves, but also with other Orders of virtuous Creatures.
1751 J. Harris Hermes i. x. 191 Verbs, Participles, and Adjectives, may be called Attributives of the first Order. The reason..will be better understood, when we have more fully discussed Attributives of the second Order.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 2 Every order and rank of animals seems fitted for its situation in life.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 3 He possessed talents of the first order.
1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings I. i. 1 All literature that comes under the order of pure phantasy.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cii. 429 Cornell..is an instance; Johns Hopkins [College] in Baltimore is another of a different order.
1903 H. Keller Story of my Life iii. 198 Miss Sullivan's talents are of the highest order.
1970 D. Jacobson Rape of Tamar i. 12 A gift of that order deserves the name of genius.
1984 E. Pawel Nightmare of Reason (1988) xi. 163 Brod's belief that Kafka's talents were of an order altogether different..from his own.
11.
a. Biology (originally Zoology). An inclusive or general taxonomic category, now spec. ranking above family and below class; a group of this rank.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > order or sub-order
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1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 233 Our Author in the first place classes them into two Orders, the first hath Lungs, the other is furnish'd with..Gills.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Petromyzon, the stone-sucker, in the Linnæan system of zoology, the name of a genus of fishes of the chondropterygii order, comprehending the lamprey, &c.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 32 Since the publication of the Régne Animal, Latreille and others have made a separate order of the Cheiroptera.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xiii. 412 All these genera, descended from (A), form an order distinct from the genera descended from (I).
1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature 49 If you divide the Animal Kingdom into Orders you will find that there are above one hundred and twenty.
1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants I. 147 He will be able to classify..any new order that may be presented to him.
1951 G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants iv. 46 An order of plants is composed of one or more families... The family usually represents a more natural unit than any of the higher categories.
1989 Sci. Amer. Feb. 56/2 Almost half of the species are classified into the songbird suborder, Oscines, of the order Passeriformes.
b. Botany. In the artificial (sexual) system of Linnaeus: a subdivision of a class, defined chiefly by the number and position of pistils in the flower. Now historical.
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1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 348/1 These are the general classes of plants, established by that excellent botanist [sc. Linnaeus], who farther subdivides them into orders, which he denominates monogynia, digynia, trigynia, &c. from the number of pistils, or female parts of generation, found in each plant.
1765 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. i. 74 The first general Division of the whole Body of Vegetables is into twenty-four Classes; these are again subdivided into Orders, the Orders into Genera, the Genera into Species, and the species into Varieties, where there are any worthy of Note.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 7/1 It belongs to the class Diandria, order Monogynia, and the natural family of Verbenaceæ.
1996 Sci. Amer. Feb. 101/1 The classes were subdivided into roughly 65 orders, based on the number, proportion and position of the female pistils: monogynia, digynia, trigynia and so forth.
c. Botany. In full natural order. A group of allied plant genera in a natural system of classification (equivalent to the modern family). Cf. natural adj. 5c. Now historical.
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1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 934 The professor has agreed to adopt this new genus by the name of Gardenia, which he says belongs to the natural order of contorted flowers,..monopetalous flowers, whose lobes, or sections of the limb of their petals, turn all to the right hand.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xv. 169 This Class comprises another natural order of plants entitled Stellated, from the manner in which the leaves grow upon the stem.
1807 R. A. Salisbury in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8 7 All the Natural Orders which agree in that respect [sc. perigynous insertion of the stamens] may be arranged in one continued series.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 1 (heading) The natural orders of plants.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 24 Feb. 5/1 The plant commonly known as the Duke of Argyll's tea tree, belonging to the same natural order (Solanaceæ) as the potato and tomato.
1916 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 3) 143/2 Family..a group of genera, formerly styled Order.
1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) i. 1 All the leguminous forage plants cultivated in the British Isles belong to a sub-order of the Family, or Natural Order, Leguminosæ, called the Papilionaceæ because their flowers are thought to resemble a butterfly.
1991 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 78 72/2 The usefulness of natural orders in classifying plants had been amply demonstrated by John Lindley in 1830.
III. Sequence, disposition, or arrangement; arranged or regulated condition.
12.
a. Regular or customary mode of procedure; a method of action; a customary practice, an established usage. Obsolete except as in sense 12b.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > the usual or ordinary way or procedure > as established or accepted
orderc1300
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in form1703
drill1940
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c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 764 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 128 (MED) It nas neuere riȝt ordre þat þe sone is fader scholde bete, Ne þe desciple beote is maister.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xvii. 15 He shal wasche his cloþes & hym self wiþ water..& by þis ordre [L. ordine] he shal be made clene.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 750 (MED) But þe ordre of Fortunys myȝt Hath euery envy þat men lyue in ese, Whos cours enhasteth vnwarly to dissese.
1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 494/2 After the olde ordre of their accomptes.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fiiiv To make hym partener of his glory by a certayn meane, and certayn order.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxliijv To se a reformacion in the ordre of the kynges houshode.
1575 W. Fleetwood in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 29 It is harde to cause a Northeren Tanner, or any other in his old daies, to lerne a newe order of Tanning.
a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. ii He..sleeps in his own clothes,..'tis an order which the friars use.
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre i. 26 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Belisarius seeing the Enemies order with their Engins, fell into a laughing.
1673 O. Wilder Of Educ. ii. iii. 246 So do Drolls reject all serious notions... Therefore we see that when such persons aim at anything grave and serious, it misbecometh them, as done out of order and season.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 231 The constant order of that matter was, to set all the pipes a running on Saturday night, that so the cisterns might be all full by Sunday morning.
b. The prescribed or customary mode of proceeding in debates or discussions, or in the conduct of deliberative or legislative bodies, as law courts, public meetings, parliament, etc.; conformity with this, as order of business, point of order, not in order, etc.See also out of order at Phrases 4 and sense 12c, and order of the day n. at Phrases 7.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > questioning of procedure
point of order1473
the mind > language > statement > objection > [noun] > an objection > respecting procedure
point of order1473
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion > mode of proceeding
order1473
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > the usual or ordinary way or procedure > as established or accepted > in discussions, etc.
order1473
1473 Acta Dominorum (1839) 26/1 The said alderman..has nocht falȝeit in the proces nor ourdoure of the seruing of the said breif.
1575–6 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 497 In the maist summar ordour of proces that may be.
1649 Platform Church Discipline (Cambridge Synod) 2 It is not intended to bind apprehensions precisely in point of order or method.
1684 in J. Gilmour & D. Falconer Coll. Decisions Lords of Council (1701) ii. 63 There was in our law no order of discussing or distinction betwixt intrometting tutors and other tutors.
a1751 in Camden Misc. (1969) XXIII. 170 His vanity will make him constantly puzzling our Speaker and our Chairmen of Committees, in points of order, which in reality he will know better than they.
1782 Gentleman's Mag. 52 622 Here the House was all in a roar, to order! to order! On which Mr. Speaker rose.
1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1849 Mr. Brougham spoke to order, and submitted, that these were expressions which were not consistent with the decorum and dignity of their proceedings.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) i. 4 Immense confusion, and loud cries of ‘chair’ and ‘order’.
1869 A. Todd On Parl. Govt. in Eng. II. iv. 323 The leader of the House of Commons is at liberty to arrange the order of business appointed for government nights as he thinks fit.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxix. 545 Business begins by the ‘calling of the convention to order’ by the chairman of the National Party committee.
1898 Daily News 25 Mar. 2/3 I wish to ask you whether your privilege as Speaker is not limited to excluding questions which transgress order.
1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes (1970) iv. 120 His first order of business, ‘clearing the deadwood’ (twenty thousand employees) from the Central's payroll.
1995 New Statesman & Society 17 Mar. 11/3 Tory back-benchers deluged the Speaker with points of order.
c. out of order: in breach of the prescribed or customary mode of proceeding of a deliberative or legislative body; (also in extended use, now esp. of a person's behaviour) unacceptable, inappropriate, uncalled for.
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1778 Addr. to Lords of Admiralty on Admiral Keppel 38 Sir Joseph..was therefore perfectly in order when he stated his grounds for suspecting that the Board..had instigated the complaint..; and Lord Mulgrave quite out of order, when he desired Sir Joseph to produce proofs.
1819 W. S. Rose Court & Parl. Beasts ii. 21 His brutal fury gave the Dog the day: Whose satire on indecency might border; But none could say that he was out of order. He, as one unconcern'd, resum'd the oration.
1869 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 13 253 The President ruled that the step now taken was out of order, and calculated to lead to a general discussion interrupting the business of the General Meeting.
1899 Dict. National Biogr. at Watson, Sir Brook He ruled this [resolution] out of order, and closed a heated discussion by having the mace taken up.
1935 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 6 8/1 A personnel audit of the faculty would not be out of order.
1975 M. Bradbury Hist. Man ix. 156 The resolution and the preceding one are both ruled out of order from the chair, on the ground that neither refers to any item on the agenda of the meeting.
1988 J. Brady Stone of Heart (1990) 190 I'm a bit out of order insisting on you going along.
2000 H. Simpson Hey Yeah Right (2001) 56 She was getting paid to babysit, not to do stuff like that. That would have been right out of order.
13.
a. Arrangement of things in which one thing, or each of a number of things, follows another; sequence or succession in space or time; succession of acts or events. Also: the way in which this occurs; course or method of occurrence or action.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun]
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consecution1651
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > order of succession
ordera1382
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a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) ix. 24 Many þingez we reden of þe old testament, þe which ben not yhad in oure bokes..desyren propre ordre.
c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 741 A trone..Seuene steppes þer beoþ þerto, Þat so feire wiþ ordre itiȝed beoþ.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 6 (MED) Þe ordre of oure writinge þat in þe first party of oure book we schewe out of prouinces, naciouns, and contrees newe kniȝtis schulle ben chosen.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxvv In this ordre they passed throughe the palayce.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 317 S. Margaret buir to King Malcolme..Edgar, Alexander and Dauid; quhilkes all conforme to thair ordour war kingis.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. i. 36 (stage direct.) The Order of the Coronation. 1. A liuely Flourish of Trumpets. 2. Then, two Iudges. 3. Lord Chancellor, with Purse and Mace before him [etc.].
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 736 Of everie Beast, and Bird, and Insect small Came seavens, and pairs, and enterd in, as taught Thir order . View more context for this quotation
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 18 Pageants on pageants, in long order drawn.
1799 J. Mackintosh Study Law Nature & Nations in Wks. (1846) I. 354 His method is inconvenient and unscientific: he has inverted the natural order.
1833 C. F. Crusé tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) iii. iv. 85 Now let us pursue the order of our history.
1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes xii. 301 ‘Let us have everything in its due order.’ Holmes thrust his long thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen.
1918 Stars & Stripes 29 Mar. 7/5 In seating guests.., they should be arranged from left to right, in order of seniority.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio vii. 117 Rough editing is assembling the main body of the programme in the right order.
2000 S. Fallon & M. Rothschild World Food: France (Lonely Planet Guide) 42 The most popular meats in France are porc (pork), veau (veal), bœuf (beef), agneau (lamb) and mouton (mutton)—in that order.
b. order of battle n. Military the arrangement of sections of an army or naval force when engaged in warfare; (in later use) spec. the organization, movements, weaponry, etc., of an enemy force; the study of this; a written record of this.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > battle array
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ORBAT1975
?1548 Ld. Berners tr. D. de San Pedro Castell of Loue sig. E.iiiv For feare that ye kepers of the prisone wolde resist & defende me the entre..I thought to go in ordre of batayl.
1608 J. Smith True Relation Occurr. Virginia sig. Ev Their willing minds to this action, so quickned their understanding in this exercise, as in all iudgements wee were better able to fight with Powhatans whole force: in our order of battle amongst the Trees.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Aav In the line, or order of battle, all the ships..are close-hauled.
1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 81/1 A Roman legion, ranged in order of battle, consisted of hastati, placed in the front; of principes, [etc.].
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxvii. 131 In that grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies.
1889 H. R. Gall Mod. Tactics ii. 11 A practical and experienced soldier, seeing his enemy get under arms and form up in order of battle, will rapidly gather a lot of valuable information regarding his numbers, artillery positions [etc.].
1924 W. C. Sweeney Mil. Intell. viii. 172 Enemy Order of Battle. This section is charged with maintaining the battle order of the enemy located within the area of responsibility of the commander.
1928 H. M. D. Parker Rom. Legions ix. 251 Arrian, in his order of battle against the Alani, shows that the legions were drawn up as a phalanx eight deep.
1946 S. Chandler & R. W. Robb Front-line Intelligence xii. 137 O/B (Order of battle) is a military science whose mission is to determine: (1) How strong the enemy is. (2) How he is organized, [etc.].
1977 S. Coulter Soyuz Affair v. 42 The spy..who brought you the cypher table or the enemy order of battle.
1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xxxi. 493 ‘OrBat for their military?’ Jack asked. He meant ‘order of battle’, essentially a roster of a nation's military assets.
14. † c. Form or shape (resulting from arrangement). Obsolete. rare.
a. In general sense: the condition in which everything has its correct or appropriate place, and performs its proper functions; the force for harmony and regularity in the universe. Cf. sense 15.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun]
ordera1382
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job x. 22 Þe erthe of wrecchedenesse & of derknessis, where shadewe of deþ & noon ordre [L. ordo].
c1475 (?c1400) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 434 (MED) Þei seyen þat seculer lordshipis asken degrees, for ȝif alle weren oon, þer weren noon ordre, but ilche man myȝte ylyche comaunde to oþer.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cxxv (MED) We sawe..the ordour digne Off hir court riall, noble and benigne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. 0. 9 Heare the shrill Whistle, which doth order giue To sounds confus'd. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 713 Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shon, and order from disorder sprung. View more context for this quotation
1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 47 Order is Heav'n's first Law.
1882 A. W. Ward Dickens iv. 90 His love of order made him always the most regular of men.
1932 R. Niebuhr Moral Man & Immoral Society ii. 30 To bring order out of the chaos of impulses with which nature has endowed man.
1991 Village Voice (N.Y.) 26 Feb. 66/3 The ancient misogynist division of humankind that equates the male with reason, logic, order, light, and the female with passion..and darkness.
b. Formal, regular, methodical, or harmonious arrangement in the position of the things contained in a particular space or area, or composing any group or body.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun]
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement
ordinancec1390
pointa1393
direction1407
order?a1425
framec1475
orderliness1571
form1600
decorum1610
shape1633
disposurea1637
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. vi. 74 By the whiche disposicion the purveaunce knytteth alle thingis in hir ordres.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 27 (MED) Þai..Of þe ordere of þat odde home þat ouer þe aire hingis Knew þe kynd.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 250 (MED) A dew ordre in euery place ys expedyent.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 578 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 113 Gif I sall schewe The order of yar armes.
1594 Mirrour Policie (1599) 49 Order is the due disposing of al things.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 148 A broken and confused heap of Bodies, placed in no order to one another.
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 363 When num'rous Wax-lights in bright Order blaze.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xvii. 315 The crevasses are..apparently without law or order in their distribution.
1957 ‘R. West’ Fountain Overflows xiii. 292 There was real order there, we would have known that anybody who thought Papa's study untidy was uneducated.
1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 602 You went..into a garden, a scattering of trees and bushes really, no order.
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the world > space > shape > [noun] > resulting from arrangement
order1578
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configuration1646
conformation1646
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxxvii. 130 Nettell leaues..reduced to the order of a Pessarie [Fr. en forme de pessus]..prouoketh the floures.
d. Originally and chiefly Military. Equipment, uniform, etc., for a specified purpose or for a particular occasion, as drill order, field-day order, review order, etc.See also marching order n. 2a, shirtsleeve order n. at shirtsleeve n. Compounds 4.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > equipment for specific occasion
fleabag1811
heavy (marching) order1836
drill order1837
marching order1848
field-day order1874
review order1874
blanket-roll1891
1837 King's Regulations Army 32 General Officers are to cause the Troops..to be frequently paraded, and exercised at least once a week in Heavy Marching Order.
1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 176 Drill order, tenue d'exercise, petite tenue.
1874 Queen's Regulations Army 1873 162 Review-order; to be worn when the Sovereign is present, for Royal escorts and guards of honour.
1874 Queen's Regulations Army 1873 163 Field-day-order; to be used generally for summer field-days, divisional and brigade drills,..[etc.].
1874 Queen's Regulations Army 1873 163 Drill-order; to be used at ordinary drills and in riding-schools.
1957 H. Williamson Golden Virgin (1963) II. xiii. 181 Dress, Fighting order with two bandoliers.
1977 ‘D. MacNeil’ Wolf in Fold v. 49 Behind them, dressed in review order, marched the infantry of the British Army.
15. A method according to which things act or events take place; the fixed arrangement found in the existing state of things; a natural, moral, spiritual, or social system in which things proceed according to definite, established, or constituted laws. Chiefly in such phrases as order of nature, order of things, order of the world; also moral order, natural order, social order, spiritual order, etc.In quot. c1450 at sense 2a: a particular instance of such method or arrangement; a law.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > ordered course of events
ordera1398
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 140v Among alle bestis..briddes and foules ben most honest of kynde, for by ordre of kynde [L. ordinem nature] males seche femalis wiþ bisynesse and loueþ hem.
c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) 327 Bi an ordre of oure kinde whan we holde waxen..We schulle forleten oure lif.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Ded. sig. aaijv No lesse confoundinge the order of thinges, then he whiche cloteth an ape in purple, & a king in sackecloth.
1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 9v God by the order of his creation hath spoiled woman of authoritie and dominion.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xii. 158 Agreeing with the wisdom of the Creator, and the goodly order of nature.
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xiii. 126 The birth of Monsters; which I look upon but as a piece of Sportfulness in the order of things.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 11 Objects..Which out of Nature's common Order rise.
1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. in Wks. (1825) IV. 13 The laws of custom are very apt to be mistaken for the order of nature.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 15 The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways.
1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xix. 219 Christ's death is the foundation of the new spiritual order.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 3 More than two generations of men had almost ceased to care whether there be any moral order or not.
1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxvi. 401 In the time of one generation men laid aside the social traditions and practices of barbarians, and assumed a social order worthy of rational and human beings.
1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 18/2 Men cannot so easily adjust themselves to a new order of things as women.
1951 C. C. Gillispie Genesis & Geol. vi. 169 Revealed truth, though indispensable to belief, could be apprehended inductively, by inferring a moral order parallel to natural order.
1994 Lay Witness Sept. 3/2 Any political order which prescinds from the spiritual order will ultimately perish.
16. Christian Church. A stated form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite or ceremony, prescribed by ecclesiastical authority; the service so prescribed; a document, book, or pamphlet in which such information is contained. Now usually in order of service.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > instance or form of
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a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 18 (MED) Vndern, Midday, Noon wid þat ilke ordir be sungen, þat is, wid vers, wid ymnis þat fallis to þaim, þre salmis, and lescuns, and vers, and ‘Kyryeleison’.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 68 (MED) Þis haue we seid schortly of þe wordre of lowsing, þat schepherdis of þe kirk ow to bind lowse vnder gret moderacoun.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. i (heading) An ordre for Mattyns dayly through the yere.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 72 The doctrine and ordour laitlie set furth at Geneua.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 58 In his third yeare, the order of Church service..was changed from the use of Pauls to the use of Salisbury.
1662 Bk. Common Prayer The Order of Confirmation.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 320 He had already..enjoined the bishops to proceed against all their clergy who did not observe the prescribed order.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 209 The service for consecrating a Northumbrian sovereign..is the oldest ‘Order’ on record.
1884 Christian World 19 June 463/4 The stiff starched ‘order of service’, the rented pews, with the odious distinction of free seats.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 4/2 According to the original order of service the King and Queen would have ascended the steps to the ‘Theatre’.
1988 M. Moorcock Mother London ii. 121 She..picked up two copies of the Order of Service.
17. The state in which the laws or rules regulating the relationship of individuals to the community, and the public conduct of members within a community, are maintained and observed and authority is obeyed; the rule of law or constituted authority; social cohesion; absence of riot, anarchy, or violent crime. Also civil order, public order, etc. law and order: see law n.1 3a.Formerly (occasionally): †an instance of such social cohesion; a law-abiding state (obsolete).
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society > law > rule of law > [noun]
lawc1175
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1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 240/2 The ordre of all poletique Rule was perverted, the Lawes..broken, subverted and contempned.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 259 Gud rewle is banist our the Bordour, And rangat ringis but ony ordour.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccli People without order or ciuilitie.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Legitimo..according to law and order.
1683 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 76 Constables should go to publick houses to see good Ordrs kept.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 270. ⁋1 Order is the Support of Society.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 785 He graced a college, in which order yet Was sacred.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 Peace and order were maintained by police regulations of German minuteness and strictness.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 63/2 It was only with the restoration of public order..that the influence of the Fehm-gerichte gradually waned.
1929 A. F. G. Bell in E. A. Peers Spain 275 A more efficient city-police, together with the Somatenes and the Civil Guard, maintained order throughout Spain.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 508/2 To protect and promote the health, safety, morals, convenience, peace, order, and general welfare of other individuals and the public generally.
1998 Canad. Geographic Mar. 44 Troops..helped clear trees, move citizens to shelters, deliver flyers, operate field kitchens and maintain civil order.
2001 Guardian 22 Feb. i. 21/1 Labour are more trusted than Conservatives to handle..even traditional Tory strong suits like the economy and law and order.
18. Measures or steps taken for the accomplishment of a purpose; suitable action in order to achieve some particular end. In later use only in to take (an) order: to take measures or steps, to deal with (now Scottish).
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun]
yarkingc1000
forgraithinga1300
apparellingc1315
ordinancec1330
purveyancec1330
graithinga1340
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apparance1546
prepare1548
fore-preparationa1586
ettlingc1600
apparelment1607
parationa1617
comparation1623
address1633
apparatus1638
prep1920
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > make preparations or arrangements
purveyc1300
providec1425
ordain1487
disponea1500
devisec1500
to take (an) order1545
dress1596
pipe lay1844
to do one's homework1915
legislate1925
1545 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 27 Mar. (1933) 130 Ye..have in the tyme of your office taken a good ordre in the matier.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. vii. 176 When the king had thus taken order with his affayres in Denmarke, he returned shortly into England.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 25 Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes, There shall be order for't. View more context for this quotation
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 497 Certain orders made to make our Fishing prosperous, and successful.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation i. ix. 129 After they had taken order to meet there again by eight of the clock in the morning, they shifted them, and departed.
1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. xxiv. 418 Even for this inevitable necessity no order having been taken by the Spanish authorities.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 536/2 Ha! by St. George, we must take order with this rabble rout.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb viii Nae anither cheep oot o' the heids o' ye; or gin ye dinna, we'll ken fat wye to tak' an order o' ye.
1964 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Order To tak an order o', wi, to take steps regarding, to deal with.
19. † b. humorous. in high (also good) order: drunk; ‘merry’. Obsolete.
a. The overall state or condition of something; normal, healthy, or efficient condition; (with modifying adjectives, as good, bad, etc.) condition of the sort specified.in order, out of order: see senses Phrases 2b, Phrases 4.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > good or bad condition or order
point?c1225
plighta1375
waya1400
ply1443
ploy1477
abyss1548
order1569
kilter1582
trim1628
tilter1674
fettle?1748
kidney1763
fix1816
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. vii. 133 This schoole..newely repayred, and set it in much better order than before it had bene.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 402 All things in best order to invite Noontide repast, or Afternoons repose. View more context for this quotation
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 1 The Ships were all in prime Order, all lately rebuilt.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 153 Land may be said to be in good order, when it is clean of weeds [etc.].
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. iv. 68 Their vanity was in such good order that they seemed to be quite free from it. View more context for this quotation
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 162 The ducks are in the finest order during the early part of the summer.
1903 N.E.D. at Order sb. The land is in bad order.
1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love v. 232 She lined up repairmen to put the new house in good order.
2000 Canoeist Apr. 10/2 We set challenging targets to..get the rights of way network into better order.
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1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. iv. 375 We..drank as we liked; so that the servants' hall and the dining-room were in equally high order, when we took our leave.
1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 17 July (1946) 96 Her husband, being in good order [i.e. drunk] also, did not miss [her] till he came to Prestonpans.
c. Originally and chiefly U.S. Applied spec. to tobacco: physical condition; condition of the sort specified. Now rare.Cf. in order at Phrases 2, and case n.1 5b.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > good or strong condition
order1897
1897 M. Whitney in U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 60. 4 ‘Order’ or ‘case’ in tobacco curing means a mint condition in which the tissue will not break.
1967 M. R. Key Tobacco Vocab. High order (too damp), low order (too dry), medium order, prime order.
20. Military. With the. The position in which a rifle is held after the command to order arms. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > manual exercise > position of weapon > specific
chargea1616
recover1692
secure1766
present1777
port arms1795
carry1802
salute1833
trail1833
ready1837
order1847
parade rest1862
slope1868
port1918
1847 Infantry Man. 44 A company..can load from the Order with the same ease as from the Shoulder.
1879 Martini-Henry Rifle Exercises 6 When the rifle has been placed at the Order, the recruit will be instructed always to fall in with it in that position.
1938 J. Cary Castle Corner 435 The sentry threw his gun to the order and shouted in one word, ‘alt-oo-go dar. Pass, friend’.
IV. The action or an act of ordering; regulation or direction.† 21. The action of putting or keeping in order; regulation; ordering; control. Obsolete.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation
ordinancec1384
rule1438
ordera1500
reglement1604
regulation1611
correction1657
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 3820 Bot rageande recche in wodnes Heled noucht ordyr off richtwisnes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxix The French kyng, which then claymed to haue the order and mariage of the yonge lady, as a pupille, ward and orphane.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxlv The Graunde Master Hostoden, which had the conduyte & ordre of the performaunce of her maryage.
a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xxiv. 47 Truli J sai unto iou, he wil give him ye order of all yt he hath.
1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vii. 62 If excesse of passions be naturall to vs as men, the order of them is naturall to vs as Christians.
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 2 To give Laws and Precepts for the Instruction and Order of his Disciples.
22.
a. An authoritative direction; an injunction, or mandate; an oral or written command; an instruction.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > a command
wordOE
behestc1175
commandmentc1250
precepta1325
mandementc1325
saw1338
hotea1350
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shall?1553
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mandition1597
imperative1606
fiata1631
mitzvah1723
order of the day1804
hukum1838
prikaz1858
1543 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 15 May (1933) 122 I made an ordre concernyng pronunciation of the Greke tonge.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxxiiij The Ambassador was commaunded to kepe his house in silence,..which ordre sore abashed the Frenche.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 118 Tail... Grumio gaue order how it should be done. Gru. I gaue him no order, I gaue him the stuffe. View more context for this quotation
1648 in S. R. Gardiner Hamilton Papers (1880) 242 Commanded to obey the orders of the Committee of Estats.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 414 Thy ship and sailors but for orders stay.
1799 Duke of Wellington Let. to Lieutenant-Gen. Harris in Dispatches (1837) I. 30 I have not heard anything of the 12 pounders ordered to a new situation by the general orders of yesterday.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 9 Then the good king gave order to let blow His horns for hunting.
1899 A. Quiller-Couch Ship of Stars xxiv [Taffy] gave the order to snug down and man the cradle for shore.
1964 H. E. F. Donohue Conversat. with N. Algren 17 If my mother wanted me to go to the store, she knew better than to ask me because I wouldn't, I didn't take orders.
1991 Newsweek Fall 74/1 Black overseers..would stand behind a line of slaves, crack their whips and give the order to start cutting.
b. Order in Council n. (also Order of Council) an order issued by the British sovereign (†or the governor of a British colony) on the advice of his or her Privy Council; (also) an order issued by a government department under powers bestowed by Act of Parliament.
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society > law > [noun] > Order in Council
Order in Council1675
1674–5 (title) His Majesties Declaration for enforcing a late Order made in Council.]
1675 Earl of Essex Lett. (1770) 207 An order of Council which had several months lay by me.
a1716 in J. Nichols Lit. Anecd. 18th Cent. (1812) IV. 34 These Mercuries and Hawkers their business at first was to disperse Proclamations, Orders of Council, and Acts of Parliament.
1746 in New Jersey Archives (1882) 1st Ser. VI. 369 An Embargo on all Vessels in this Province for the Space of one Month unless his [sc. the president's] Order in Council shall be first Obtained for the Sailing of any Vessel.
1809 Ann. Reg. 1807 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 227/2 English commerce..was not only greatly cramped, but lay prostrated on the ground, and motionless, before a protecting and self-defensive system was interposed by our orders in council.
1867 A. Todd On Parl. Govt. in Eng. I. v. 287 The crown has no right, by a mere Order in Council,..to sanction a departure from the requirements of an existing law.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 410/2 By an order of council which came into operation in December 1878, swine fever was declared to be a disease.
1961 Halsbury's Laws Eng. (ed. 3) XXXVI. 477 Orders in Council are instruments made by the Crown..by which the great majority of powers conferred on the Crown are required to be exercised, being orders expressed to be made by and with the advice of the Privy Council.
1993 Bluenose (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Mar.–Apr. 50/1 What people don't seem to understand is the pervasiveness of patronage... It's not so easy to see in Orders in Council, statements that come out regularly.
c. doctor's orders: instructions from one's physician; (hence figurative) any injunctions which cannot be evaded.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > course of treatment > prescribed by a doctor
prescription1568
doctor's orders1716
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > injunction or instruction > an injunction or instruction > which cannot be evaded
doctor's orders1932
1716 B. Griffin Humours of Purgatory I. 25 I love to be expeditious in dispatching a Patient according to the Doctor's Orders.
1791 A. W. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. xi. 193 The nurse knew her duty too well to obey him, and had strictly followed the doctor's orders.
1841 C. Dickens Let. 18 Jan. (1969) II. 189 I have been obliged to make up my mind—on the doctor's orders—to stay at home this evening.
1886 H. Munby Let. 12 Mar. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 410 Oh the miserable & false step you took when you separated me from you, by the doctor's orders.
1899 Econ. Jrnl. 9 278 No article of diet to be supplied unless by doctor's orders.
1932 A. Christie Peril at End House ix. 104 No one..will be admitted... ‘Doctor's orders,’ they will be told. A phrase very convenient and one not to be gainsayed.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet 73 He returned to the gallery offering his candy about. ‘Doctor's orders,’ he said. ‘He'll probably send me another bill now for ten cents for advising me to eat a nickel's worth of candy.’
1976 Sci. Amer. Mar. 127/2 ‘Doctor's orders’ excuse almost any behaviour, yet they are mere advice.
1992 Independent 22 Apr. 12/6 On an unusually quiet Friday night at the Ulysses, Jane is smoking the first of several roll-ups (against doctor's orders).
d. orders are orders (also, humorously, orders is orders): commands must be obeyed.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > in command [phrase] > orders must be obeyed
orders is orders1852
1852 H. Melville Pierre xvi. ii. 323 I am sorry, sir, but orders are orders:..I can't disobey him.
1852 Harper's Mag. May 849/1 All I know is, that orders is orders, and must be obeyed.
1939 A. Ransome Secret Water i. 18 I'm awfully sorry, you people. It just can't be helped. Orders is orders.
1973 Times 2 June 12/3 The delicious ridiculousness of the telegram perhaps has to be explained... But orders were orders.
1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing ii. 28 He waited patiently while I ranted at him from my soapbox. ‘Sorry,’ he said, finally. ‘Orders are orders. Sergeant, get rid of this man, will you!’
e. Computing. An instruction or command, esp. one in machine language. Now historical.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > instruction > in low-level language
order1946
program step1950
machine instruction1956
1946 H. H. Goldstine & J. Von Neumann in J. Von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1961) V. 26 In performing a multiplication one usually performs about 3 or 4 associated additions or subtractions or comparisons; hence at least 4–5 orders must be given and at least that many numbers transferred—it is assumed that an order specifies only one basic operation, together with its transfers.
1958 M. Phister Logical Design Digital Computers xi. 342 An instruction (also called a command or an order)..identifies which of a limited number of operations the computer is to carry out, and the computer functions by executing a sequence of these instructions, one at a time.
1967 M. Klerer & G. A. Korn Digital Computer User's Handbk. i. i. 10 Machine-language coding uses the machine order code, which is directly interpreted by the instruction register.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 98 The detailed information sent to the input/output units from the local control units can be called orders.
23. In spec. senses.
a. Law. A decision of a court or judge, made or entered in writing. In the Supreme Court: a direction of the court or a judge other than a final judgment.order nisi: see nisi adj. court order: see court n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > decision other than final judgement
order1557
interdict1611
interlocutory1620
interlocution1706
rule nisi1738
decree nisi1860
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > decision in writing or court order
order1557
1557 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 290 [Presentment, parish constable, Great Maplestead, Essex)] And therfore we desyre your good counsell or Order in this behalffe And Remedye for the same.
1607 J. Davies Relation Voy. New Eng. in H. O. Thayer Sagadahoc Colony (1892) 66 After the Sermon our pattent was red wth the orders & Lawes thearin prescrybed.
a1726 G. Gilbert Cases Law & Equity (1760) 137 Two Justices made an Order, that upon Sight thereof the Overseers should [etc.].
1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) II. v. viii. 651 Relief..treated as a loan..may be recovered, under an order of justices, by attachment of the party's wages in his master's hands.
1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 345 The Orders under the Judicature Act provide that every order may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment, but still judgments and orders are kept entirely distinct.
1956 E. S. Gardiner Case of Demure Defendant 146 Judge Ashurst glanced at Jackson Newburn. ‘The Court will make that order,’ he said.
1979 Halsbury's Laws Eng. XXVI. 237 The terms ‘judgement’ and ‘order’ in the widest sense may be said to include any decision given by a court on a question or questions at issue between the partners to a proceeding properly before the court.
2000 Oldie Dec. 30/2 The courts can issue orders under which some or even all of the pension is handed over to the ex-spouse.
b. Banking and Finance. A written direction to pay money or deliver property, made by a person legally entitled to do so.See also money order n., postal order n. at postal adj. and n. Compounds.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > a promissory note or bill of exchange
exchange1485
bill1579
bill1613
hundi1619
assignment1622
cambio1645
note1653
order1673
bank bill1682
banknote1695
assignation1704
promissory note1710
note of hand1728
stiff1823
time bill1842
PO1861
marker1887
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > postal order
post bill1740
money order1802
post-office order1815
order1846
P.O.O.1856
PO1861
postal note1862
postal order1864
mandat1896
M.O.1909
postal draft1929
1673 Ld. Shaftesbury Speech 5 Feb. in Orig. Jrnls. House of Lords 55 14 He saw..the difference through all his business, between ready money, and orders.
1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 53 Its unadvisedly done for a Drawer..to make his Bills payable to order.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 60. ⁋2 Pray pay to Mr. Tho. Wildair, or Order, the Sum of One Thousand Pounds, and place it to the Account of Yours, Humphrey Wildair.
1746 G. G. Beekman Let. 20 June in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 3 Must beg you to Desire Maycum to Send me an Order to Damand my Noat of hand per Samuel Bayard Which I Gave for my Part of the SeaCoal.
1846 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 366 I will send a Post-Office order, in repayment.
1883 Ld. Blackburn in Law Times Rep. (1884) 49 687/1 The bills of lading also were made out in the name of D. and Co., deliverable to their order.
1891 W. B. Yeats Let. Dec. (1954) 186 I had intended to return the £1 at once... Some days passed by..the order which I enclose being all the time on my table awaiting posting.
1913 W. Owen Let. 16 Dec. (1967) 221 I have cashed the Order long ago.
1998 I. Hunter Which? Guide to Employment vi. 110 You will receive a booklet of weekly orders which can be cashed at a post office.
c. Business. A written or verbal direction for something to be made or supplied; (also) the thing so provided. to order: according to such a direction. Also figurative.See also made-to-order adj.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > order
special order1547
order1746
mail order1867
line1892
pre-order1957
the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > by asking or entreaty > an order
order1746
indent1799
rush order1889
1746 G. G. Beekman in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 9 Agreeable to your Order have Shipt on board Captain Robert Griffith the Twelve hogsheads Sugar for Which Gave you Our Obligations Which Desire you would Give to Captain Griffith on the Delivery of the Sugars.
1837 H. W. Longfellow Let. 21 May in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. xvii. 252 He writes the piece to order, for Miss Clifton, who gives him a thousand dollars.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iii. vii. 92 ‘If it's an order, let us have it at once.’ ‘It is not an order,’ said Morley.
1855 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. I. 29 Poets indeed are not made ‘to order’.
1879 H. George Progress & Poverty (1881) v. i. 242 Manufacturers find their orders falling off.
1935 E. F. Benson Lucia's Progress vii. 206 ‘Went like hot cakes, ma'am,’ said the proprietor, ‘..and I've just telephoned a repeat order.’
1987 P. Benson Levels vii. 63 I gave him our invoice, he told me to stack the order in the back.
d. A pass for free or reduced-price admission to a theatre or other place of entertainment, or to any place which is not unrestrictedly open to the public, such as a museum, library, park, private establishment, etc. Now rare.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket > for free use or admission
free pass1653
billet1697
order1763
paper1785
pass1838
courtesy card1934
1763 S. Johnson 16 May in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1904) I. 262 He has refused me an order for the play for Miss Williams, because he knows the house will be full.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i On the first night of a new piece they always fill the house with orders to support it.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 5 And about the box-office in the season,..when Mr. Seguin gives away the orders.
1855 London as it is To-day 243 Museum of the Royal Institution. Admission by member's order.
1899 Whitaker's Almanack 379/2 The Times and the Daily Telegraph Printing Offices... By special orders only.
1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2 Orders: See Deadheads. English name for free admissions.
e. A request for food or drink in a restaurant, cafe, public house, etc.; (a helping of) food or drink served in such an establishment. last orders (British): (in a public house or bar) the time when notice is given that it is near closing time and any further drinks should be ordered immediately; a shout or the ringing of a bell which announces this.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > order for food > [noun]
order1836
short order1906
the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > portion of food > portion served > in restaurant
order1904
1836 C. Dickens in Bell's Life in London 17 Jan. 1/1 ‘Pray give me your orders gen'lm'n—pray give me your orders’..and demands for ‘goes’ of gin, and ‘goes’ of brandy, and pints of stout, and cigars of peculiar mildness, are vociferously made.
c1863 T. Taylor in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 90 Now then James! Jackson, take orders. Interval of ten minutes allowed for refreshment. Give your orders, gents.
1898 A. Bennett Man From North v. 29 A waitress, who approached and listened condescendingly to his order.
1904 ‘O. Henry’ in N.Y. World Mag. 27 Mar. 10/4 And all this while she [sc. the waitress] would be performing astounding feats with orders of pork and beans, pot roasts, [etc.].
1949 Crisis (N.Y.) Nov. 305/2 They looked like the best tasting flapjacks in the world. They went inside and had an order.
1953 Word for Word (Whitbread & Co.) 24/1 Last orders, please, doleful sound, frequently accompanied by the ringing of bells and dimming of the light; not as final as Time, gentlemen, please.
1973 J. Shub Moscow by Nightmare xiv. 165 Two orders of stuffed vine leaves, please.
1992 Matrix Fall 15/1 The waitress took our order, didn't linger to chat.
f. colloquial. With modifying word suggestive of magnitude, as big, large, strong, etc.: a demanding requirement or request. Now usually in tall order: see tall adj. 8d.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > quality of being difficult or exacting > a difficult or demanding task > a difficult demand
overdraw1873
order1875
1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now II. liii. 17 By Jove, it's a rather strong order when a girl has just run away with another man. Everybody knows it.
1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister III. v. 82 ‘Is he not honest in all senses?’ ‘That's a large order. To tell you the truth, I don't know any man who is.’
1892 Field 17 Sept. 446/3 It was a big order to have to run off eighty courses in the day.
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara i. in John Bull's Other Island 210 Barbara. Yes. Give us Onward, Christian Soldiers. Lomax. Well, thats rather a strong order to begin with, dont you know.
1927 Sunday Times 6 Mar. 23/3 There is no technical necessity now for the spark system, but it would be a rather big order to ask that all ships should abolish it.
1958 ‘A. Bridge’ Portuguese Escape viii. 125 This is quite a large order, isn't it? Suppose you tell me a bit more.
g. order to view: a request from an estate agent to an occupier to allow an inspection of their premises by a client.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > authorization to inspect
bill of sight1662
order to view1911
1911 W. J. Locke Glory of Clementina Wing xxiii. 337 A caretaker took the order-to-view given by the estate agents and conducted the party over the place.
1922 E. H. Young Bridge Dividing iii. xi. 301 It's to let. I've got an order to view.
1967 C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post iv. 36 Vacant these fourteen years... There have been many orders to view.
1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 July c1/1 This country is the paradise of the compulsive looker... In Switzerland, he is likely to be run out of the country before he so much as gets an order to view.
Phrases
P1. by order.† a. = in order at Phrases 2. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb]
aboutOE
by rewc1225
by ordera1382
sue?a1425
in orderc1425
successively1439
suingly1453
seriatly?a1475
consequently1477
seriatim1495
in sequencea1575
successive1593
succeedingly1602
consequentially1607
subalternately1632
successfully1651
epassyterotically1652
consequent1692
serially1841
consecutively1847
solid1938
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xliii. 7 The man askide vs by ordre [L. per ordinem] our progenye, ȝif þe fader lyuyde, ȝif we hadden a broþer.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2514 Al hire letter wryten I ne may By order.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) 2961 Be order they comen in her maneres.
a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) v. ix. f. 93 (MED) This cercle..was redely lyned be ordre, and stiked ful of sterres.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. sig. x3 I knowe that al thynges stande by order, and without order nothyng can be.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xxvi. 199 All these notable Earthquakes..have succeeded one an other by order.
b. By authoritative direction or command (of a person, body, etc.).
ΚΠ
1644 J. Maxwell Answer to Worthy Gentleman 46 The Scotish Pope's Sermon Preached at Westminster, and Printed by Order of the House.
1691 London Gaz. No. 2724/1 On the 20th Instant..by Order of the Tribunal of the Inquisition at Toledo..Eight Jews were burnt alive.
1766 G. G. Beekman Let. 10 Feb. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 494 Pray are not the notes sued filed and Cant You Come at them by Order of the Court.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. vi. 241 Property sold by order of the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer.
1939 Man 110 127/1 It was the general custom among the Amandebele that malefactors executed by order of the king were not buried.
1985 D. Lucie Hard Feelings ii. ii, in Progress & Hard Feelings 84/1 No swearing. By order.
2002 Elle Mar. 217/1 By order of the Commander of the Faithful, Mullah Mohammad Omar, women could no longer venture outside their homes unchaperoned by a male relative.
P2. in order
a. In succession; in the proper sequence, according to rank, seniority, size, position, date, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb]
aboutOE
by rewc1225
by ordera1382
sue?a1425
in orderc1425
successively1439
suingly1453
seriatly?a1475
consequently1477
seriatim1495
in sequencea1575
successive1593
succeedingly1602
consequentially1607
subalternately1632
successfully1651
epassyterotically1652
consequent1692
serially1841
consecutively1847
solid1938
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2076 (MED) Þei were in ordre..Eueryche of hem sette in his due see Liche as þei werne of age & of degre.
c1510 How Plowman lerned Pater Noster 113 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 213 In ordre folowed them other thre.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 9797 All þai toldyn hym tale [read tite]..Of þaire answare, in ordur.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 507 Forth In order came the grand infernal Peers. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 94 The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top.
1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 26 Beyond the episternals, the epimerals normally come next in order.
1890 I. D. Hardy New Othello II. viii. 179 He proceeded to set the facts..in order and sequence.
1948 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 126 We can have on the first section of the program tape..the program for arranging the data in order by age.
1974 F. Forsyth Dogs of War (1975) ii. viii. 156 He had listed them provisionally in order from One to Twenty-four on the basis of their apparent suitability.
2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten xvi. 189 If he arranged the elements..in order of their atomic weights,..one could see recurrences of the same properties and valencies at regular intervals.
b. In the correct condition; in a condition in which the elements or constituents are properly disposed with reference to each other, or to their purpose; in accordance with some rule or custom.to put (also set) one's house in order: see house n.1 and int. Phrases 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > in (proper) order [phrase]
in point1481
in ordera1500
in tune1535
kilter1621
in punto1631
a1500 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 349 Þe fendes of helle trowen alle þat we trowen, but hem failen charite to bynde her schelde in order.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xi. 34 Wother thynges will I set in order when I come.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xx. f. 133 Hauinge set all things in order for that voyage.
1656 J. Nicholl Diary Public Trans. & Other Occurr. (1836) 189 The eistmest kirk of the twa being first compleit and put in ordor.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 39 Thus useful Arms in Magazines we place, All rang'd in Order, and dispos'd with Grace.
1772 Test Filial Duty II. 219 Their house is putting in order.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 516 He made his solemn preparations for departure: setting his affairs in this world in order, and leaving the little property of which he was possessed to those whom he most desired to benefit.
1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 28 Why should we spend a hundred thousand men and millions of money in setting that part of the world in order?
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 525 One of the chief duties of these societies is to keep the women in order.
1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear i. vii. 122 No, no; everything is now in order.
1993 Waterline (Hayling Island Sailing Club) Summer 27/1 We circled the harbour on full rudder to check the autopilot, which was in order.
c. Originally U.S. in (also at, on) short (also quick) order: without delay; immediately.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
anonc1175
forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
skeetc1175
swithc1175
with and withc1175
anon-rightc1225
anon-rights?c1225
belivec1225
lightly?c1225
quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
hastilyc1275
i-radlichec1275
as soon asc1290
aright1297
bedenea1300
in little wevea1300
withoute(n dwella1300
alrightc1300
as fast (as)c1300
at firstc1300
in placec1300
in the placec1300
mididonec1300
outrightc1300
prestc1300
streck13..
titec1300
without delayc1300
that stounds1303
rada1325
readya1325
apacec1325
albedenec1330
as (also also) titec1330
as blivec1330
as line rightc1330
as straight as linec1330
in anec1330
in presentc1330
newlyc1330
suddenlyc1330
titelyc1330
yernec1330
as soon1340
prestly1340
streckly1340
swithly?1370
evenlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
in the twinkling of a looka1393
derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
out of handc1400
wightc1400
at a startc1405
immediately1420
incontinent1425
there and then1428
onenec1429
forwithc1430
downright?a1439
agatec1440
at a tricec1440
right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
straightway1526
at a twitch1528
at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
at once1531
belively1532
straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
1830 Cincinnati Chron. 2 Jan. 1/2 He replied he didn't ‘smoak me’, and unless I cut cable in short order, he'd roar me up salt river.
a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1856) xxv. 307 If ever you dew it agin you'll git your walkin'-ticket on short order.
1857 J. A. Turner Cotton Planter's Man. 126 First, Baden corn..was run up to a high pitch by false statements—..a complete failure; the thing passed off in quick order.
1892 Outing Apr. 19/1 I was so thoroughly comfortable that I went to sleep in short order.
a1916 H. James Ivory Tower (1917) iii. iv. 198 Your solution, is marriage to a wife at short order.
1976 Publishers Weekly 24 May 58/3 Linda descends on twenties London to become, in short order, a model, the toast of lords [etc.].
1996 S. Deane Reading in Dark (1997) v. 203 Well, she told me, she let him know in quick order why.
d. Originally U.S. Appropriate to or befitting the occasion; suitable; called for; correct.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > fitting or proper
methelyeOE
ylikeeOE
fairOE
i-meteOE
rightOE
becomelyc1175
proper?c1225
featc1325
conablea1340
rightful1340
worthyc1350
pursuanda1375
covenable1382
dignec1385
convenablec1386
thriftyc1386
sittingc1390
comenablea1400
gainlya1400
meeta1400
wortha1400
convenientc1400
meetlya1425
suinga1425
fitc1440
tallc1440
worthyc1450
good1477
dueful?a1527
beseeminga1530
fitting1535
straighta1538
decent1539
answerable1542
becoming1565
condecent1575
becomed1599
respective1605
befittinga1612
comely1617
decorous1664
shape-like1672
beseemly1737
farrantly?1748
fitly1840
in order1850
1850 in Rep. Deb. & Proc. Conv. Revision Constit. Ohio (1851) 52/1 I have prepared a resolution..and whenever it may be in order I shall offer it.
a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) viii. 85 If the gent has made a remark what teches you, apologies is in order.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxv. 399 One week sufficed to conclude my business in Oregon, but before leaving a few general notes are in order.
1903 N.Y. Times 4 Sept. 2/3 Good byes were in order on the Erin last night.
1962 G. Kubler Art & Archit. Anc. Amer. ix. 205 A few ‘glazed sherds’ found during excavation: if these were plumbate, a Toltec Maya date would be in order.
1977 N. Marsh Last Ditch vi. 151 Is it in order for us to ring up your father and ask him to dine?
1992 Guns Illustr. (ed. 24) 8/1 Because I didn't order iron sights on this 40XR, a scope was in order.
e. Chiefly U.S. Of tobacco: in good condition. Cf. sense 19c. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1940 Amer. Speech 15 134 In order, in pliable condition (with reference to leaves).
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlv. 18 The tobacco has to be in order before it can be properly stripped.
P3. in order to† a. With regard or respect to, in reference to; for the sake of. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > in respect of or with regard to
in wise ofc1290
by (also for) reason ofa1350
as to (the) regard ofc1392
in regard of or toc1392
upon the side ofa1393
with regard toc1392
in respect of?a1425
in this (also that) behalf1458
upon the feat of1483
for (the) respect of1489
as pertains to1526
in order to1526
with respect1556
ad idem1574
on this behalf1581
in or with reference to1593
quoad hoc1601
in point of1605
with intuition to (of)1626
in the mention of1638
in terms of1704
how and about1753
as regards1797
as concerns1816
w.r.t.1956
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bviv The ryches of the worlde hath no goodnesse: but in order to man.
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 56 Wee come to their punishment, which..is necessary for us to know, in order to this subject.
1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 393 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity That which Paul speaketh of himselfe, and Timothy, in reference unto the Corinthians, 2 Cor. 6. 11 is applicable unto Christ in order unto all Christians.
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 427 I gave..an account in my last of what I had done in order to his Majesty's commands.
b. † (a) With a view to the bringing about of (something), for the purpose of (some desired end). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [phrase] > in order to
in purposea1450
because1523
in order to1590
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk2 There was she faine To call them all in order to her ayde.
1655 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 33 Col. Jones and Col. Penruddock are sent downe into the west in order to theire tryall.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1672 (1955) III. 624 After which I returned home, in order to another Excursion to the sea side.
1711 A. Spotswood in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 188 To meet me next week on our frontiers in order to a treaty.
1773 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 428 A meeting ought..to be called..in order to a regular opposition in parliament.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 229 In order to shoemaking, there must be tanning.
1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness viii. 67 In order to the existence of love between two parties, there must be a secret affinity between them.
(b) With infinitive expressing purpose: so as to do or achieve (some end or outcome).
ΚΠ
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Exod. vi. 27 These are they that speak to Pharao, king of Egypt, in order to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt.
1660 in J. Simon Ess. Irish Coins (1749) 125 Tokens..with a privy marke..in order to discover the counterfeiting of any such like tokens.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 48. ⁋2 I shall next Week come down..in order to take my Seat at the Board.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 336 They then incur every danger, in order to rescue their young.
1822 J. J. Berzelius in Edinb. Philos. Jrnl. 7 6 These two minerals have a great relation with the Mesolite; and in order to distinguish them, I shall call the upper stratum Mesole, and the lower grained stratum Mesoline.
1868 Chambers's Encycl. III. 142/1 In order to support the roof..a second row of columns was introduced.
1912 H. Croly Marcus Alonzo Hanna 99 In the beginning he may have taken some long chances in order to accelerate the progress of the firm.
1960 Observer 20 Mar. 40 The surgeon did not know which way to turn in order to save the child.
1994 Food & Wine Oct. 74 (caption) True risotto must be stirred continuously in order to develop its unique texture.
P4. out of order: not in proper sequence, orderly arrangement, or settled condition; (of a person) not in proper or normal condition of action, mind, bodily health, etc.; indisposed; (of a mechanical or electrical device) not working properly or at all. Also attributive (usually with hyphens). See also sense 12b.In sense ‘indisposed’ very common in the 18th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > in a state of inactivity [phrase] > out of action
out of order1530
out of commission1533
on the shelfa1577
out of action1703
out of blast1832
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > in disorder [phrase]
at or on six and sevenOE
out of kinda1375
out of rulea1387
out of tonea1400
out of joint1415
out of nockc1520
out of tracea1529
out of order1530
out of tune1535
out of square1555
out of kilter1582
off the hinges?1608
out of (the) hinges?1608
in, out of gear1814
out of gearing1833
off the rails1848
on the bumc1870
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > annoyed or vexed [phrase]
out of order1530
the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts
out of estatec1400
disordainedc1430
out of order1530
mistempered?1541
untemperate1541
so-soa1592
indisposed1598
discomposed1603
out of sorts1621
disorderly1655
queerish1684
out of one's gears1699
disordered1708
uneasy1725
seedy1729
queer1749
scaly1803
quisby1807
under the weather1827
all nohow1852
toneless1854
nohowish1867
chippy1868
fishy1868
off-colour1876
dicky1883
on-and-offish1888
cheap1891
crook1916
lousy1933
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > unruly [phrase] > out of control
out of ward?c1225
out of rulea1387
out of order1530
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > useless [phrase] > unserviceable
out of order1530
out of commission1533
out of tune1638
on the blink1901
on the fritz1924
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/1 Disarey, out of order, desaroy.
1546 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 2 Jan. (1933) 211 The worlde is soo far out of ordre as ther is smal cause to make any fest.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 31 Ky, nocht tame..bot lyke wylde hartes, wandiring out of ordour.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 250 The patient is much disquieted, vexed, & too much out of order.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 113 To mend a watch, that's out of order.
1674 Philos. Trans. 1673 (Royal Soc.) 8 6183 Sometime two, three, or more of the joynts in a Piece are slipped and out of order or rank.
1722 London Gaz. No. 6098/1 His..Majesty being out of Order, by reason of a Cold.
1772 S. Johnson Let. 4 Nov. (1992) I. 405 Since I came to Ashbourne I have been out of order. I was well at Lichfield.
1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxv. 131 Don't fail to stop at our house in your way back to your lodgings, Miss Ellis, to look at my harp. I believe it's out of order.
1861 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 3) iv. 137 A high organisation would be..more liable to be put out of order and thus injured.
1882 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 2/4 Waters in Sheffield district still out of order, and angling at a standstill.
1925 S. Weyman Queen's Folly (1927) xix. 189 He fell out of the line [of shooters] on the ground that his Manton was out of order.
1950 T. Walsh Nightmare in Manhattan iii. 82 A phone booth behind the news-stand—it has an out-of-order sign on it.
1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 48/2 You might wind up with correct words but with the text string completely out of order.
P5. in order for: †(a) with a view to achieving (a desired end), so as to obtain (obsolete); (b) with object and infinitive expressing purpose, in Phrases 3b(b).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [phrase] > with the intention or object of
allc1300
because1480
in the way of1548
in order for1610
with a (also the) view of1692
with a view to1692
out of a view to1719
1610 Bible (Douay) II. 2 Macc. v. 8 Having been shut up by Aretas, the king of the Arabians, in order for his destruction,..as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt.
1698 G. Powell Imposture Defeated i. 3 My Master has pack'd up in order for the taking of a Journey to Hell.
1746 E. Haywood Female Spectator No. 24 (1748) IV. 281 The various stratagems to which she was obliged to have recourse, in order for this discovery.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 243 There was scarce a Wickedness which I did not meditate, in order for my Relief. View more context for this quotation
1833 W. Whewell Astron. & Gen. Physics i. 27 The ripening of the seed, its proper deposition in order for the reproduction of a new plant.
1936 R. S. Glasgow Princ. Radio Engin. i. 22 In order for these machines to produce even harmonics it would be necessary for, [etc.].
2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 116/1 In order for sex to meet your standards, you prefer control over your prey..and might even like to engage in some domination games.
P6. in order that: with the aim or purpose that; to the end that.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [phrase] > in order that
for thatc1175
to that that1502
to purpose that1582
in order that1671
1671 E. Settle Cambyses iv. iv. 64 In order that we may this deed fulfill, We first will execute th'Impostor's Will.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 62. ¶2 In order..that the Resemblance in the Ideas be Wit [etc.].
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones v. ix Blifil and the doctor..waked the sick man, in order that the doctor might feel his pulse.
1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley viii. 126 In order that you may see that we cannot help doing so.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 119 I have come to you now, in order that you may speak to him.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 83/2 In order that street surfaces may be well lighted, the minimum illumination should not fall below 0·1 candle-foot.
1992 Caribbean Week Apr. 25/1 A group of preservationists who sought an injunction to stop the construction in order that further archaeological work could be done.
P7. order of the day n. [compare French l'ordre du jour (1755 in military context, 1771 in political context)]
1. Politics. In a legislative body: the business set down for debate on a particular day.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > business set for day
order of the day1698
society > law > legislation > [noun] > business of the day
order of the day1842
1698 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 8 Apr. 101 45 The House (according to ye Order of the day) Resolved it self into a Committee of the whole House to Consider further of Wayes and Meanes for Raising ye Supply granted to His Majesty.
1729 E. Knatchbull Parl. Diary (1963) 95 The orders of the day were moved for and so this day's debate ended.
1779 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XII. 401 The order of the day was read for the House to resolve itself into a committee of supply.
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 895/2 The motion for reading the order of the day has equally [with a motion to adjourn] the effect of superseding the existing question.
1894 R. H. Davis Eng. Cousins 167 In the Order of the Day these questions now appear numbered and titled.
2001 United News Bangladesh (Nexis) 11 July Canceling order of the day, the Jatiya Sangsad sat late in the afternoon in a mourning session.
2. colloquial. The prevailing rule, custom, or state of affairs of the time.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > of specific period or time
mode1649
order of the day1791
fashion1821
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > collectively > prevailing at the time
order of the day1791
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man ii. iii They [sc. revolutions] are become subjects of universal conversation, and may be considered as the Order of the day.
1795 G. Washington in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 66 Peace has been (to borrow a modern phrase) the order of the day.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 87 Industry was the order of the day.
1897 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 583 November's dark hours and gloomy fogs were once more the order of the day.
1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 465/2 Radio sets flood the market, beauty parlors spring up on every side, dancing, feasting, joy-riding are the order of the day.
1991 Managem. Accounting Sept. 69/3 Networking is the order of the day. Building chains of customers is the way for businesses to succeed in the 1990s.
3. Military. A specific command or notice issued by the commanding officer to the troops under his or her command.Recorded earliest in extended use.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > a command
wordOE
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order of the day1804
hukum1838
prikaz1858
1804 J. Collins Scripscrapologia 102 ‘Britons, Strike Home!’ The Order of the Day; ‘Britons, Strike Home!’
1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 236 The best document of his relation to his troops is the order of the day..in which [etc.].
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. vii. 88 The famous order of the day of the G.O.C. Palestine..which..imposed a ban on fraternization with the Jews.
1999 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Sept. c15 The command was issued as the order of the day to the army massed on Polish frontiers.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
order system n.
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1829 Censor 224 Render it incumbent on him to adopt the Shilling Order system.
1902 Philos. Rev. 11 394 So far as this search succeeds, the succussion of our acts finds itself expressed in an objective series which becomes a complex order-system.
1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 23 July b1/4 The legislation would change the federal government's milk marketing order system.
C2. Objective.
order-loving adj.
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1798 Spunkiad iv. 22 Our order-loving Dayton..soon found a way..to..screen his Griswold from impending harm.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xv. 68 His order-loving soul was daily vexed by reason of the irregularities.
1997 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 91 671/2 The order-loving Soviet people would welcome attempts to restore the political and social stability that seemed to have crumbled under perestroika and glasnost.
order-maker n.
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1898 Harper's Mag. Mar. 536/2 For another twenty or thirty minutes Wolf went on banging with his board and demanding his rights; then at last the weary President threatened to summon the dread order-maker.
1906 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) ix. 222 Not only in the great city, but in the outlying towns, these natural ordermakers, whether amateurs or officials, came to the front immediately.
1997 Hotel & Motel Managem. (Electronic ed.) 3 Mar. In recent years, most properties have addressed the need for their reservations sales agents to make a transition from order-takers to order-makers.
order-making n. and adj.
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1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience viii. 170 Unhappiness is apt to characterize the period of order-making and struggle.
1963 Times 22 Feb. 5/1 The order-making machinery in the Bill.
1998 Oxfordshire Bull. Sept. 11/3 It should be possible to appeal to the Secretary of State after the order making stage is completed.
C3. † order-word n. [compare French mot d'ordre (1793), and earlier ordre (1686 in this sense)] Obsolete the military password of the day, a watchword.
order clerk n. a clerk who enters business orders.
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1871 Harper's Mag. June 13/2 Here are..three ‘amendment clerks’, three ‘order clerks’, two ‘invoice clerks’, [etc.].
1927 W. W. Bishop Pract. Handbk. Mod. Libr. Catal. (ed. 2) 21 The catalog room..should be..on the same floor with the order clerks, classifiers and shelf-listers.
1995 Computerworld (Electronic ed.) 10 July Too many of his examples are drawn from..rarefied environments... There is not much here about crack accounting teams, order clerks or shop-floor supervisors.
order-disorder adj. Physics attributive designating a change in which an alloy or other substance adopts a less ordered structure, e.g. one in which particular atoms become randomly distributed in a lattice.
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1935 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 151 13 The next class of substances to be identified in this sense are the metallic alloys showing an order-disorder transition at a critical temperature.
1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 8420/2 The transition was associated with a liquid-crystalline, order-disorder phase change of cholesterol esters within the particles.
order-driven adj. (a) determined or directed by commands given; (b) Stock Market (originally U.S.) of or designating a system or market in which prices are determined by the orders placed by dealers.
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1985 Sociol. Theory 3 52/1 The search and rescue would then appear as order-driven because collective representations of what is to occur would constrain social action.
1988 Fortune 1 Aug. 29/2 These stocks are order driven. Current earnings don't mean a thing.
1997 Daily Tel. 21 Oct. 28/5 Trading in blue chips, on the FTSE 100's first day as an order-driven market, suffered a shaky start.
order form n. a printed form on which a customer writes the details of a required product or service.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > order > order form or pad
order form1805
order-pad1936
1805 H. Reeve Jrnl. 2 Dec. in Resid. Vienna & Berlin (1877) 72 Dr. Vivenot..had made repeated applications for an order-form to look at this collection.
1894 Country Gentlemen's Catal. 3 We hope..that subscribers..will use our Enquiry and Order Forms.
1991 S. Faludi Backlash ii. vii. 186 He waggles a ruffle-decked gown before a buyer with a blank order form.
order man n. chiefly Australian and New Zealand a man who takes or makes out orders.
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > one who takes or makes out orders
merchant1450
order mana1951
a1951 A. C. Headley in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 367 It was the rent and the order man, and a new pair of shoes.
1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. ii. 11/5 (advt.) An experienced timber orderman is required for timber yard in western suburbs.
order mark n. a minor school punishment.
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society > authority > punishment > other types of punishment > [noun] > school punishment
penal1845
order mark1912
1912 A. Brazil New Girl at St. Chad's vi. 99 By general custom all pencils..or other stray possessions were put into what was known as the forfeit tray, whence their owners might reclaim them by paying the penalty of the loss of an order mark.
1963 H. C. Barnard & J. A. Lauwerys Handbk. Brit. Educ. Terms 141 Order mark, a punishment (usually confined to girls' schools) for offences of a comparatively trivial kind.
order-pad n. a pad of order forms.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > order > order form or pad
order form1805
order-pad1936
1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners x. 226 She pushed the order-pad and pencil towards him.
1972 M. Kaye Lively Game of Death (1974) i. 4 Manufacturers..whip out order pads and hope to sell enough merchandise.
1997 J. Ryan Dismantling Mr Doyle vii. 80 The waitress finished taking the order..and slapped her order-pad closed.
order paper n. (a) a paper on which the day's business for a legislative assembly is entered; (b) (in the House of Lords) a publication of questions, etc., for the remainder of the session.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > order paper in Commons
order paper1876
white paper1906
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > order-paper in Lords
order paper1876
1876 Galaxy July 131/1 The Order Paper of the Council contains the following minute.
1896 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Jan. 52/2 There were as many as 70 questions on the order paper.
1946 May's Law Treat. Parl. (ed. 14) ii. xii. 245 Together with the Minutes of Proceedings is printed the Order Paper, consisting of a programme of future business so far as appointed.
1984 S. Johnson Tunnel i. 1 Grantham wanted to wave his order paper but refrained.
order wire n. Telecommunications a channel or path in a communication system used for signals controlling or directing system operations.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > line > types of
private line1852
outside line1861
firewire1883
party line1893
order wire1912
tie-line1923
open line1941
hotline1954
1912 J. B. Thiess & G. A. Joy Toll Telephone Pract. xiv. 214 (caption) Phantom circuit used as an order wire.
1973 R. N. Renton Data Telecommunication ix. 211/1 Communication with the customer for setting up and clearing connections is effected over telephone circuits (order wires) via the normal telephone exchange.
1992 IEEE Spectrum Mar. 41/1 Orderwire: a voice or data circuit used by technical control and maintenance personnel for setting up, monitoring, and controlling communications systems and services.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > password
watchword1615
password1799
order-word1875
1875 L. Morris Songs of Two Worlds 3rd Ser. 165 No word or glance as they shuffled along But the order-word, sharp and loud.
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 71 Marmont against the third gave the order-word.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
orderv.
/ˈɔːdə/, U.S. /ˈɔrdər/ I. To put in order; to classify, regulate.† 3. transitive. To put in order or readiness (for a purpose); to make ready, prepare. Obsolete.† 4. transitive. To bring into order or submission to lawful authority; to inflict disciplinary punishment on; to correct, chastise, punish. Obsolete.† 5. transitive. To take a certain course with (a person or thing); to treat, deal with, or manage in a specified manner. Obsolete.
1. To classify, put in order; to manage, direct.† b. transitive. To class; to rank. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To place in order, give order to; to arrange in a particular order; to arrange methodically or suitably.Formerly: spec. †to draw up in order of battle; to array, marshal (obsolete).
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrange [verb (transitive)]
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to lay out1848
the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > in a particular order
order1611
the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > specific hair, clothing, etc.
set1303
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c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 28 (MED) Nihe wordes þer beoð, ah hu ha..beoð iordret & sunderliche isette, þe an buue þe oðre.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 2345 (MED) In such wise ordire at youre wille The principal agent your purpose to fulfille.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lviii. 197 Kyng yuoryn..ordred them in batayle.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Bijv In what maner, were ordred theyr offrynges.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 2 When he corrected the Calender, and ordered the yeere according to the course of the Sunne.
1683 Apol. Protestants France i. 3 I..found him ordering his Books, and loose Papers.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 87 Boards like a Dresser, to order my Victuals upon.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 152 Here all things in their place remain, As all were order'd, ages since.
1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. 216 Ordering her hair, some coils of which had been loosened by her flight.
1949 F. Fergusson in D. Lodge 20th Cent. Lit. Crit. (1972) 402 The current interest in myth as a way of ordering human experience.
2000 Terminol. Work—Vocab. (B.S.I.) II. 16/1 Order data..into groups according to specified criteria.
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1662 A. Petrie Compend. Hist. Catholick Church i. ii. §1. 9 Despising the legions of Angels (socially ordered with him).
1662 A. Petrie Compend. Hist. Catholick Church i. ii. §1. 9 All these..are ordered among the Members of the Church.
c. transitive. Military. to order arms (also a gun, etc.): to bring a firearm into a position in which it is held vertically against the right side of the body with the butt on the ground. Hence as int. Also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)] > position weapons
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1678 tr. L. de Gaya Art of War ii. 57 Whilst the Pikes are exercising, the Musketteers are made to order, or rest upon their Arms.
1801 J. H. Nichols Jefferson & Liberty iii. viii. 18 If I ask him for a few dollars to buy a new gown, he makes no reply but quick march. If he wants his dinner, he bids me order arms.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. viii. 186 Order your musket.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 260 The Commanding Officer is then to direct the Parade to Order Arms.
1894 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 158/2 We halted once, ordered arms, and rested several minutes.
2002 Llanelli Star (Nexis) 17 Nov. 3 d We were all commanded to order arms and stand at ease to await Her Majesty's arrival.
2. † c. transitive. With clause as object: to settle, determine. Obsolete.
a. transitive (reflexive). To conduct oneself, behave; to regulate or manage oneself. Now archaic and rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave or conduct oneself [verb (reflexive)]
wieldOE
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c1487 J. Skelton in tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica Interpretatio 3 This wyse my-self orderynge in my translacion..so as the trouthe of the mater shal not be enblemysshyd.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxiii. A Ordre thy self manerly wt ye thinges that are set before ye.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Confirmacion f. xi* To ordre myselfe lowlye and reuerentelye to al my betters.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 33/2 Whosoeuer will order himselfe according to Gods rule, must learne to recule & withdraw himselfe.
1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis lxi. 162 If thou would'st order thy self handsomely, thou hast need to be acquainted aforehand with..the make and temper of thy natural inclinations.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xliv. 437 Ordering one's self lowly and reverently towards one's betters, is not to be a worshipper of graven images, and I will and must speak!
1982 R. Anderson Poacher's Son (1984) iv. 43 Boys and girls must order themselves lowly and reverently to their betters.
b. transitive. To set or keep in order or proper condition; to adjust, arrange, or carry on according to rule; to regulate, direct, conduct, rule, govern, manage; to settle.In quot. 1597: to regulate the conveyance of (troops).
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the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > order or regulate
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conform1602
drill1877
society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > regulate
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direct?1510
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ordinate1595
qualify1597
steer1616
govern1806
police1885
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > draw up (troops) > in battle array
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to pitch (also set) a fielda1500
order1509
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deraign1528
marshal1543
re-embattle1590
size1802
form1816
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Av v Her owne houshold with meruayllous dylygence & wysdome this noble prynces ordred.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. iii. 138 Good vncle, help to order seuerall powers, To Oxford. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. 0. 39 To order peace betweene them. View more context for this quotation
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces v. 173 Each of the Provinces was left to order the Matter of Religion as they thought fit.
1710 A. Philips Pastorals v. 76 At that he wound The murm'ring Strings, and order'd ev'ry Sound.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 1 They order, said I, this matter better in France.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew I. iii. 45 ‘Carpe diem’ was the motto by which he ordered his days.
1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. ii. iii. 437 The father so rules..as to order and bless his home.
1918 A. Huxley Let. 28 June (1969) cxxxix. 157 I got your coins... Comparing them with a handful of coppers from my pocket I am reluctantly compelled to admit that they ordered these things better in Greece.
1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 20/1 There is a real danger that the collapse of Yugoslavia..will become the textbook model of how large tracts of Central and Eastern Europe order their affairs now that Communist control is lifted.
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the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide [verb]
willOE
ordain1340
deemc1400
delibera1413
machine?c1450
order?1523
decree1526
deliberate1550
fix1788
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iiv The plough fote..is a stay to order of what depnesse the ploughe shall go.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. I4v One verse did but beget another, without ordering at the first, what should be at the last.
d. transitive. Of God or a god: to regulate or determine (occurrences, events, etc.); to ordain. Now archaic and poetic.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > predestine or predetermine [verb (transitive)]
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ordinate1850
foreordinate1858
preset1926
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 710 But I say therwith that like as God hath ordered the bodleye wyttes as wayes toward the understanding of reason, [etc.].
1592 B. Rich Aduentures Brusanus i. xviii. 39 All thinges are guided and gourned by the prouidence of god, who knoweth and ordereth casuall thinges necessaryly.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxvii. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 30 Why was my breeding order'd and prescrib'd As of a person separate to God, Design'd for great exploits? View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 153 If the good Providence of God had not wonderfully order'd the Ship to be cast up nearer to the Shore.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. ii. 88 So my lot was ordered.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 91 It was ordered otherwise, and doubtless wisely.
1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey i But the Gods saw fit to order it right otherwise when they spirited him away with an utterness beyond example.
1990 S. S. Tepper Raising Stones i. i. 27 The prophets are taught that the Cause was inevitable because Almighty God ordered it so.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > prepare or put in order
tailc1330
ordain1340
disposec1375
appoint1393
fettlea1400
tifta1400
richc1400
tiffc1400
orderc1515
instruct1534
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compose1612
to make up1759
fix1783
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxiii. 219 Than the couent..orderyd themselues & so went out of the abbay to mete Huon.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Ai Shewyng howe the pilgreme of the way of religion shuld prepare & order hymselfe.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. li. 349 That manner of ordering things, whereby they are stamped, and beaten very small.
1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 10 Read your votes..and so order your way for an explanatory Bill.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 26 Apr. (1970) III. 71 They brought us also some Caveare, which I attempted to order.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 167 Some Kitchin-ware for ordering their Food.
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society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment
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castea1200
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chastise1362
corrigec1374
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nurturec1520
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swinge1560
penance1580
disciple1596
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to serve out1829
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 250 Syn that he is one of my peers I wyll ordre hym by iugement.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxix An incorrygyble persone that wyll not be ordered.
1642 T. Lechford Plain Dealing (1867) 91 One master Doughty, a Minister,..spake so in publique,..which was held a disturbance, and the Ministers spake to the Magistrate to order him.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 9 Dec. (1974) VIII. 574 This Lord is a very proud and wicked man, and the Parliament is likely to order him.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > conduct (an affair)
demeanc1315
to see for ——1405
to go in hand with (also to do something)c1450
treatc1450
behavea1529
ordera1535
handle1548
manage1579
to bear forth1631
conduct1632
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 49/1 Yet is there none yt..knoweth better..to order him, then I that so long haue kept him.
1562 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 12 He was ordred worse then any seruaunt in her fathers house.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. B1v Hereof if it be planted and ordered as in Persia, it cannot in reason be otherwise, but that there will rise in shorte time great profite to the dealers therein.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 18 Many..being thus ordered..will bear flowers the second year after the sowing.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 105 I..was assured that he had been well fed, and ordered as he used to be.
1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. xx Hang it to dry and order it as you do other colour'd silks.
1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 45 The way of ordering marle must be according to the nature of it.
6. transitive. To admit to holy orders; to ordain. Formerly also: to admit ceremonially into a monastic order; to admit or institute to a benefice. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > ordain [verb (transitive)]
hallowc900
hodec1275
sacrec1290
ordainc1300
orderc1330
consecrate1387
sanctify1390
canonize1393
to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)a1400
consacrea1492
ensacrea1492
ordinate1508
impose1582
japan1756
society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > [verb (transitive)] > admit to
monkOE
orderc1330
profess?1430
cowl1536
clothe1628
monasticize1825
monachize1876
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5288 He made him a croun brod þere As a monke þat orderd were.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 45 (MED) Þe bisschop, wanne he ordreþ þes, Takþ hym þe cherche keyȝe.
a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) 519 (MED) Þe priores sal to-geder call All þe conuent, grete & small Þat orderd er, both old & ȝing.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vii. xvi. 303/2 Some frende of him that shall be ordred gyueth the bysshop some gyft.
1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. A.iiiv The Bishop shall surcease, from orderyng that persone.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iv. 283 That the Bishop of Rome ordered, and admitted al the Bishops throughout the worlde..that it hath no possibilitie, or coloure of trueth in it selfe.
a1610 G. Babington Comfortable Notes: Num. viii, in Wks. (1615) ii. 38 Note how fit it is to order Ministers in the face of the Church.
1895 W. Besant In Deacon's Orders i. 2 One who has thus been ordered.
III. To give an order or orders.
7. † b. transitive. To appoint (a day) for some purpose, by a parliamentary order. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To give orders for (something to be done, etc.); to bid, command, direct. With simple object, clause, or object and passive infinitive, expressing the thing enjoined; more rarely with object and complement. Also: to instruct or prescribe medically.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > specific something to be done
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1535 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 10 June (1933) 66 As it shal please the Kinges Highnes to ordre expressely, I shal gladly doo.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 465 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 274 That he compeir in to or habeit quhyt Vntill I ordor it wer a grit dispyte.
1623 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 3rd Bk. xiii. 134 He..told her, that the drawing of so great a quantitie of blood from her, might..indanger her life. But she replies, it was so ordered by a Doctor.
1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing §11 sig. D3v It is further Ordered and Decreed, that no Merchant, Bookseller [etc.].
1667 D. Allsopp in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 8 They passed the Bill..and ordered it to be reported the next day.
1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick vii. 143 Moses had ordered the Kings a Copy of the Law.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. ii. 116 I have ordered to be at Home to none but yourself. View more context for this quotation
1781 J. Witherspoon in Pennsylvania Jrnl. 9 May . 1/2 These things were ordered delivered to the army.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. v. 229 He ordered my companions to be handcuffed.
1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall III. x. 207 The doctor ordered him to be bled; and after that, he was more subdued and tranquil.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xi. 191 My bill was introduced by Senator Williams of Oregon, read by title, and ordered printed.
1938 W. T. Walsh Philip II xxi. 423 The Duchess ordered ships fitted out to meet and escort him.
1972 Sci. Amer. July 76/1 Frederick ordered the children raised in silence, so that they would not hear one spoken word.
1977 Time 19 Dec. 9/2 When the local military commander was ordered removed after having congratulated the throng on its patriotic singing, Lagoa angrily summoned the marchers back on the pavement.
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the world > time > particular time > [verb (transitive)] > time, appoint, or set a time for
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1669 A. Marvell Let. 25 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 93 To morrow is..orderd for the motion of the Kings supply.
1677 A. Marvell Let. 27 Feb. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 182 They rose ordering Friday next to resume this consideration.
8.
a. transitive. To give orders to or command; to direct authoritatively (a person to do something). Also intransitive.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)]
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1609 Bible (Douay) I. Judges vii. 8 Taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he ordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents.
1676 Kirkcudbright Burgh Rec. (MS) Ye ar hereby ordrid to..aprehend..Mr. William McMillan.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. iii. 11 He..ordered an elderly Woman servant to rise..and come to him. View more context for this quotation
1796 E. Gibbon Let. 19 Dec. (1956) II. 133 You may say in general in the family (if any should bark) that you are satisfied with my conduct, and order them to shut their trap.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. vi. 196 He..ordered them to prepare to march on the following night.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. i. 176 He belonged himself to the class whose business was to order rather than obey.
1918 By Unknown Disciple xx. 238 He ordered the centurion to have it so inscribed on the Titulus.
1988 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator 19 Apr. b4/1 Mr. Bernier asks the court to order the Health and Social Affairs Department to pay compensation.
b. transitive. To command or direct (a person) to go or come to, into, †upon, away, here, home, off, out, etc.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > send (a person)
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1649 Moderate Intelligencer No. 210. 1958 The Lady Carlile was ordered to the Tower.
1667 Ormonde MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 58 The two soldiers ordered upon him.
1680 Tryal & Sentence E. Cellier 22 He was Re-Ordered to Prison.
1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 157 The Czar ordered him for Astracan.
1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 289 This Day a Jack-Daw..was order'd close Prisoner to a Cage.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. May 246/1 A bill is order'd into parliament for vesting the forfeited estates of certain traytors in his majesty.
1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 34 They were ordered successively to the gang-way, where their backs were laid bare, their wrists tied to the bulwark, and ‘half a dozen’ inflicted with the cats.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit lii. 595 It was clear that Mark expected to be ordered out immediately, and was quite prepared to go.
1898 H. R. Haggard Dr. Therne i. 5 He..was ordered to a warmer climate.
1958 S. Runciman Sicilian Vespers xiii. 219 The Messinese ships still hovering off the port were ordered home.
2001 Big Issue 27 Dec. 9/3 Two Rastafarians were ordered off an aircraft after a stewardess mistook pictures on their T-shirts of..the Emperor Haile Selassie for Osama bin Laden.
c. transitive. to order about (also around): to order hither and thither in a peremptory manner; to domineer over, treat as a subordinate.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > order about
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to order about (also around)1853
sergeant-major1931
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. v. 78 I'm not used to being ordered about like dumb cattle.
1853 C. Brontë Villette I. iv. 74 I refused to be ordered about and thrust from him.
1895 New Eng. Mag. Apr. 224/1 When they have protested against..being ordered about from pillar to post, men, women and children have been ruthlessly slaughtered.
1943 A. Rand Fountainhead iii. i. 429 He was shoved and ordered around by every..drunken deck hand aboard.
1986 J. Huxley Leaves of Tulip Tree (1987) ii. 34 Elaine was ordered about, kissed and hugged and scolded all day long by her mother.
2000 Esquire Jan. 110/1 He..could be talked into helping, allowing the boys to order him around..retrieving balls from the cattails at the water's edge.
d. transitive. Euchre. to order up: to order (the suit of the card turned up by an opponent who is dealing) to be adopted as trumps. Also intransitive.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by asking, entreaty, or importunity > by ordering
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to speak of ——1600
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > euchre > [verb (transitive)] > actions in euchre
to order up1843
1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 129 His antagonist ordered the king up.
1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 655/1 A player can declare to play alone when he or his partner orders up, or when his partner assists.
1950 L. H. Dawson Hoyle's Games Modernized (ed. 20) 88 If the non-dealer thinks his hand good enough, with the suit of the turn-up card as trumps, to make three tricks, he says..‘I order it up’.
1963 G. F. Hervey Handbk. Card Games 184 The elder hand (non-dealer) may either order up or pass. If he orders up, the suit of the exposed card becomes the trump suit, and the dealer must take up the exposed card and discard..a card.
9. transitive. To make an order for; to give a verbal, written, or electronic request that (something) be made, supplied, or served; spec. to request (food, drink, etc.) in a restaurant, etc. Occasionally with up. Also intransitive.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > order
to speak for ——a1688
order1746
mail-order1968
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by asking, entreaty, or importunity > by ordering
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to speak of ——1600
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1646 Perfect Diurnall No. 154 1238 A Report was made to the house of Commons touching the desire of the Earle of Bristoll to have a Passe to goe beyond Seas, The house agreed with the Committee therein, and ordered him a passe according to the late Articles of Exeter.
1746 G. G. Beekman Let. 16 Dec. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 13 My Clock Case is Come to this place, So you Can If you please Order it by first good Oppertunity.
1763 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Sept. (1924) I. 31 Mrs. Bacon pressed me to drive with her, but I had ordered in Hall, and I could not.
1836 Bp. Wilson Diary in Life (1860) II. xv. 108 We ordered our ponies and johnpons.
1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 1 Aug. 543/1 What would you..do, if you ordered one kind of wine and was required to drink another?
1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 63 Shall I order you a cab?
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 1 Please read remarks and rules before ordering.
1930 A. Bennett Imperial Palace ii. liv. 400 The waiter wrote and vanished. When Gracie returned, Evelyn said: ‘I've ordered.’
1967 L. James Chameleon File (1968) x. 118 Wilson ordered the frozen Daiquiri.
1976 J. M. Brownjohn tr. H. H. Kirst Time for Payment vi. 134 Order up, ladies and gentlemen, and don't worry about the breath test.
2000 Denver Post 15 Oct. k6/3 Reprints that can be ordered with a mouse click after viewing photos online.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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