holy orders see under order

Holy Roller noun (derogatory)

A preacher or follower of an extravagantly emotional religious sect

Holy Roman Empire noun

The unification of Europe with papal blessing, under a Christian emperor, 800–814AD and 962–1806AD

hoˈly-rood (as a place name /holˈ/) noun

1. Christ's cross
2. A cross, esp in Roman Catholic churches over the entrance to the chancel (for Holy-rood Day see under rood)

Holy Saturday noun

The Saturday before Easter Sunday

Holy See noun

The Roman Catholic bishopric of Rome, ie the Pope's see

Holy Sepulchre noun

The tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the crucifixion

Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost noun

The third person of the Christian trinity

hoˈlystone noun

A sandstone used by seamen for cleansing the decks, said to be named from cleaning the decks for Sunday, or from kneeling in using it

transitive verb

To scrub with a holystone

holy terror noun (informal, esp joc)

A formidable person, or someone given to causing commotion or agitation

Holy Thursday noun

Maundy Thursday

holy war noun

1. A war waged for the eradication of heresy or a rival religion
2. A Crusade

holy water noun

Water blessed for religious uses

Holy Week noun

The week before Easter

Holy Willie noun

A religious hypocrite (after Burns's poem)

holy writ noun

The Scriptures

Holy Year noun

In the Roman Catholic Church, a jubilee year

order /örˈdər/

noun

1. Arrangement
2. Sequence
3. Disposition
4. Proper arrangement
5. Proper condition
6. The condition of normal or proper functioning
7. A regular or suitable arrangement
8. A method
9. A system
10. Tidiness
11. A restrained or undisturbed condition
12. A form of procedure or ceremony
13. The accepted mode of proceeding at a meeting
14. A practice
15. Grade, degree, rank or position, esp in a hierarchy
16. The degree of a curve or equation
17. A command
18. A written instruction to pay money
19. A customer's instruction to supply goods or perform work
20. The goods supplied
21. A pass for admission or other privilege
22. A class of society
23. A body of persons of the same rank, profession, etc
24. A fraternity, esp religious or knightly
25. A body modelled on a knightly order, to which members are admitted as an honour
26. The insignia of such a body
27. A group above a family but below a class (biology)
28. One of the different ways in which the column and its entablature with their various parts are moulded and related to each other (architecture)
29. One of the successively recessed arches of an archway
30. Due action towards some end, esp in the old phrase ‘to take order’
31. The position of a weapon with butt on ground, muzzle close to the right side
32. Equipment and uniform for a particular purpose, as in battle order
33. A portion or helping in a restaurant, etc (N American)
34. (in pl) the several degrees or grades of the Christian ministry

transitive verb

1. To arrange
2. To set in order
3. To put in the position of order (military)
4. To regulate
5. To command
6. To give an order for
7. To order to be (done, etc) (US)
8. To conduct (Shakespeare)

intransitive verb

1. To give commands
2. To request the supply of something, esp food

interjection

Used in calling for order or to order

orˈderer noun

orˈdering noun

1. Arrangement
2. Management
3. The act or ceremony of ordaining eg priests or deacons

orˈderless adjective

1. Without order
2. Disorderly

orˈderliness noun

orˈderly adjective

1. In good order
2. Regular
3. Well-regulated
4. Of good behaviour
5. Quiet
6. Being on duty
7. Of or relating to orders (military)

adverb

1. Regularly
2. Methodically

noun

1. A private soldier with particular duties
2. Formerly, a non-commissioned officer who carried official messages for his superior officer
3. A hospital attendant
4. A street cleaner

order book noun

1. A book for entering the orders of customers, the special orders of a commanding officer, or the motions to be put to the House of Commons
2. The amount of orders received and awaiting completion

order form noun

A printed form on which the details of a customer's order are written

order in council noun

An order by the sovereign with advice of the Privy Council

orderly bin noun

A street receptacle for refuse

orderly officer noun

The officer on duty for the day

orderly room noun

A room for regimental, company, etc, business

order of battle noun

Arrangement of troops or ships in preparation for a fight

order of magnitude noun

1. The approximate size or number of something, usu measured in a scale from one value to ten times that value
2. (loosely) a rising scale in terms of size, quantity, etc

order of the day noun

1. Business set down for the day
2. A proclamation by a dictator or military commander
3. Something necessary, normal, prevalent, particularly popular, etc at a given time

order paper noun

A paper showing the order of business, esp in parliament

call to order see call¹

full orders

The priesthood

holy orders

1. An institution, in the Roman and Greek Churches a sacrament, by which a person is specially set apart for the service of religion
2. The rank of an ordained minister of religion

in order

1. With the purpose (with to or that)
2. In accordance with rules of procedure at meetings
3. Appropriate, suitable, likely
4. (also in good, working, etc order) operating, or able to operate, well or correctly
5. In the correct, desired, etc order

in short order (US)

Promptly

in or of the order of

More or less of the size, quantity or proportion stated

minor orders

In the Roman Catholic Church those of acolyte, exorcist, reader and doorkeeper, in the Eastern Churches, reader

on order

Having been ordered but not yet supplied

order about or around

To give orders to in a domineering fashion

out of order

1. Not in order
2. (of actions, behaviour, etc, or of people as acting or behaving in some way) outside normally acceptable standards, excessive or uncontrolled (informal)

sailing orders

Written instructions given to the commander of a vessel before sailing

sealed orders

Instructions not to be opened until a specified time

standing orders see under stand

take order (obsolete)

To take measures or steps

take orders

To be ordained

tall or large order (informal)

An esp unreasonably large request or difficult assignment

to order

According to, and in fulfilment of, an order