Order

or′dėr, n. regular arrangement, method: degree, rank, or position: rule, regular system or government: command: a cla , a society of persons of the same profe ion, .: a religious fraternity: a dignity conferred by a sovereign, ., giving membership in a body, after the medieval orders of knighthood, also the distinctive insignia thereof: social rank generally: a number of genera having many important points in common: a commi ion to supply, purchase, or sell something: ( arch it. ) one of the different ways in which the column, with its various parts and its entablature, are moulded and related to each other: due action towards some end, esp. in old phrase 'to take order:' the sacerdotal or clerical function: ( pl. ) the several degrees or grades of the Christian ministry.— v.t. to arrange: to conduct: to command.— v.i. to give command.— ns. Or′der-book , 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; Or′derer ; Or′dering , arrangement: management: the act or ceremony of ordaining, as priests or deacons.— adj. Or′derle , without order: disorderly.— n. Or′derline .— adj. Or′derly , in good order: regular: well regulated: of good behaviour: quiet: being on duty.— adv. regularly: methodically.— n. a non-commi ioned officer who carries official me ages for his superior officer, formerly the first sergeant of a company.— adj. Or′dinate , in order: regular.— n. the distance of a point in a curve from a straight line, measured along another straight line at right angles to it—the distance of the point from the other of the two lines is called the absci a , and the two lines are the axes of co-ordinates .— adv. Or′dinately .— Order-in-Council , a sovereign order given with advice of the Privy Council; Order-of-battle , the arrangement of troops or ships at the beginning of a battle; Order-of-the-day , in a legislative a embly, the busine set down to be considered on any particular day: any duty a igned for a particular day.— Close order , the usual formation for soldiers in line or column, the ranks 16 inches apart, or for ve els two cables'-length (1440 ft.) apart—opp. to Extended order ; Full orders , the priestly order; Minor orders , those of acolyte, exorcist, reader, and doorkeeper; Open order , a formation in which ships are four cables'-length (2880 ft.) apart; Sailing orders , written instructions given to the commander of a ve el before sailing; Sealed orders , such instructions as the foregoing, not to be opened until a certain specified time; Standing orders or rules , regulations for procedure adopted by a legislative a embly.— In order , and Out of order , in accordance with regular and established usage of procedure, in subject or way of presenting it before a legislative a embly, ., or the opposite; In order to , for the end that; Take order ( Shak. ), to take measures. [Fr. ordre —L. ordo , -in is .]