orderer (orderer)

1. One who arranges, disposes, or regulates; one who keeps in order, or restores to order. You have chosen me to be the judge of the late evils happened, orderer of the present disorders, and finally protector of this country. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, v. But it is no harm for Him, who is by right, and in the greatest propriety, the Supreme Orderer of all things, to order everything in such a manner as it would be a point of wisdom in Him to chuse that they should be ordered. Edwards, On the Freedom of the Will, iv. § 9. 2. One who gives orders; one who orders or commands; a commander, ruler, or governor. ordering (ôr'dėr-ing), n. [Verbal n. of order, v.] 1. Disposition; distribution. These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him. 1 Chron. xxiv. 19. 2. In the Anglican Ch., ordination; the act of ordaining or conferring orders: as, the order ing of deacons; the ordering of priests. The Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth, and confirmed at the same time by authority of Parliament, doth contain all things nece ary to such Consecration and Ordering; neither hath it anything that of itself is superstitious and ungodly. Book of Common Prayer (Eng.), Articles of Religion, xxxvi. 3. Arrangement; adjustment; settlement. We need no more of your advice; the matter, The lo , the gain, the ordering on 't, is all Properly ours. Shak., W. T., ii. 1. 168. Secondly, a due ordering of our words, that are to proceed from, and to expre our thoughts; which is done by pertinence and brevity of expre ion. South , Sermons, II. iil. All form is formle , order orderle , Save what is opposite to England's love. Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 253. This order with her sorrow she accords, Which orderle all form of order brake; So then began her words, and thus she spake. Daniel, Civil Wars, ii. 81. orderline (ôr'der-li-nes), n. Orderly state or condition; regularity; order. Thanks to the orderline of things, dangers have their premonitions. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 73. orderly (ôr'dèr-li), a. and n. [= D. ordelijk = MLG. ordelik = MHG. ordenlich, G. or dent lich = Sw. Dan. ordentlig; as order + -ly1.] I. a. 1. Conformed or conforming to good order or arrangement; characterized by method or regularity, or by conformity to established order; regular; methodical; harmonious. The children orderly , and mothers pale For fright, Long ranged on a rowe stode round about. As when the total kind Of birds, in orderly array on wing, Came summon'd over Eden to receive Their names of thee. ordinance nable: see ord in able.] The quality of being ord in able, or capable of being ordained or appointed.. Bp. Bull, Works, I. 367. ord in ablet (or'di-na-bl), a. [ And euery thing, though it be good, it is not of hymself good, but it is good by that it is ord in able to the greate goodne e. Testament of Love , ii. 2. Capable of being adjusted, fitted, prepared, ordained, or appointed. Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 5.