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t. [ Warriours old with order'd spear and shield. Milton , P. L., i. 565. Here all things in their place remain, As all were order'd ages since. Tennyson, Day-Dream, Sleeping Palace. 2. To place in the position or office of clergyman; confer clerical rank and authority upon; ordain. Whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that Book, since the second year of the forenamed King Edward unto this time, or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same Rites; we decree all such to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully consecrated and ordered. Book of Common Prayer (Eng.), Articles of Religion, xxxvi. 3. To arrange methodically; dispose formally or fittingly; marshal; array; arrange suitably or harmoniously. IMG:content-1811.png:[graphic] He did bestow IMG:content-1812.jpg:[blocks in formation] Lev. xxiv. 4. The rhymes are dazzled from their place, And order'd words asunder fly. 4145 Tennyson, Day-Dream, Prol. 4. To dispose; adjust; regulate; direct; manage; govern; ordain; establish. No force for that, for it is order'd so, That I may leap both hedge and dyke full well. Wyatt, The Courtier's Life, To John Poins. They [Utopians] define virtue to be life ordered accord. ing to nature, and that we be hereunto ordained of God. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 7. Order my steps in thy word, and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Ps. cxix. 133. If I know how or which way to order these affairs Thus thrust disorderly into my hands, Never believe me. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 2. 109. She will order all things duly, When beneath his roof they come. Tennyson, Lord of Burleigh. 5. To instruct authoritatively or imperatively; give an order or command to; command; bid: as, the general ordered the troops to advance; to order a person out of the house. Good uncle, help to order several powers To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are, Shak., Rich. II., v. 3. 140. The President of Panama had strictly ordered that none should adventure to any of the Islands for Plantains. Dampier , Voyages, I. 206. 6. To command to be made, done, i ued, etc.; give a commi ion for; require to be supplied or furnished: as, to order goods through an agent. That pair of checked trousers... he did me the favour of ordering from my own tailor. Thackeray , Mrs. Perkins's Ball, i. Another new i ue of 100 millions United States notes was ordered on motion of Mr. Stevens. H. Clews , Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, p. 83. To order about, to send to and fro on tasks or errands; a ume authority over; dictate to; domineer over. - Το order arms, in military drill, to bring the butt of a firearm to the ground, the weapon being held vertically against the right side. - To order up, in euchre , to direct the dealer to take the turned-up card into his hand in place of any card he then holds. =Syn. 3. To adjust, methodize, systematize.-4. To carry on.-5. To bid, require, instruct. orderable (or'der-a-bl), a. [ The king's aversene to physick, and impatience under it, was quickly removed above expectation; the king (contrary to his custome) being very orderable in all his sickne e. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. vii. 22. ( Davies .) order-book (or'der-bük), n . A book in which orders are entered. Specifically - ( a ) A book in which the orders of customers are entered, as for the making or supplying of articles. (b) A book in the British House of Commons in which members are required to enter motions before submitting them to the House. (c) A book kept on a man-of-war for recording occasional orders of the senior officer. (d) A book kept at all military headquarters, in which orders are written for the information of officers and men. Each company also keeps one. Wilhelm . order-cla (or'der-klás), n. The number of lines of a congruence which are cut by two arbitrary lines.