ORD 
given to every officer in writing by their refpective fer- 
ants. 
i The orders of the commander-in-chief are thofe which 
the pee = ale daily go to head-quarters for that 
de ene bag they write down every thing that is dictated 
to d from thence they go and communicate the 
they firft read them totheir colonels and ee 
or majors, and they ditate them to the ferjeants of compa- 
nies, and this is done by the a cipetinn ee who writes sthem 
corre&ly down in their orderly chee s, and brings them to 
all the officers belonging to the company. 
de are alfo garrifon, brigade, regimental, flanding, &c. 
or 
Orb: n War, denotes an arrangement of the parts o 
an army, "either by land or fea, whether for marching, fail- 
ing, of engagin 
OrRpER of Battle. See Barrie and Lin 
An ORDER of March is difpofed in two or ides columns, 
according to the ground. orders and evolutions make 
the fubje& of the {cience se tactics. See EvoLution 
and Marcu. 
ORDER is more place ufed for the equal diftance of 
one rank or file from anothe 
The ufual order in files is — feet; in ranks fix feet. 
The open or Oe One oe is twice as muc ee Marcu. 
Orper, Clofe, 0 See Batt 
Orper, in Rhetoric. is ie placing of aa word and 
mber of a fentence in fuch a manner, as will moft con- 
tribute to the force, » beauty, or alegre = whole ; ac- 
m of differe 
guih, the 
order it is Seger the beft ; 
the ufe of the be 
of = boy of a itate; with iy to 5 emblice prece- 
en 
in dee fenfe, — is a kind of dignity, which, under 
the fame name, n to feveral perfons ; and which, 
of — does oe ae tiga any particular public authority, 
but only rank, and a capacity of arriving at honours and 
employments. 
To abridge this definition, order may be faid to bea dig- 
nity attended with an aptitude for public employ. By which 
it is diftinguifhed from an office, which is the exercife of a 
public trutt. 
In this io eee an order, &c. 
alfo an order, 
ORDER is "ie ae title of certain ancient books, contain- 
ing the divine office, with the order and manner of its per- 
formance. 
Roman order is that in which are laid down the ceremonies 
sis os in ad Romifh chur sa See Rirvat. 
ERS, by f eminence, or Aoly orders, denote a 
charac peculiar to ecclefialtice whereby they are fet 
ry. 
The clericate is 
apart for the m 
ORD 
This the Romanifts make their fixth facrament. 
bifkops, priefts, and the 
are feven, exclufive of ae pa eater all which the council 
of Trent enjoins to be received, and believed, on pain of ana- 
thema. 
They are oe into petty, or fecular orders ; and 
“ major, or facred orders 
Orvers, the teh or minor, are four ; viz. thofe of door- 
keeper, exorcilt, reader, and aco 
higher orders. 
about them: enjoins that none be admitted into them 
out underftanding Latin: and recommends it to the tifope, 
to obferve the intervals of conferri 
with thofe rules. 
ferred the fame nah and only make the firft part of the 
ceremony of ordination 
e Greeks difavow thefe petty orders, and pafs imme- 
stl to the fub-diaconate ; and the reformed to the dia- 
cona 
Their firft rife Fleury dates in the time of the emperor 
Juftinian. There is no call nor benefice required for the 
four petty orders ; andabaftard may even enjoy them with- 
out any difpenfation ; nor doe bigamy difqualif 
OrDE ERS, Sacred, or r, we cae ever obferved, are 
three ; viz. tho 
The council of T 
of the 
pe efon 4 is faid to be promoted to orders ‘ae fone 
n he has not before paffed the inferior or e 
fick an ordination valid. 
RDERS, Military, are companies of knights, inftituted by 
kings and princes; either for defence of the faith, or to 
eee! marks of honour, aad make diftin@ions among their 
fu 
There have been five orders, purely military, in England ; 
viz. thofe of the knights of the Garter, knights Bannerets, 
ice of the Bath, knights Bachelors, and knights Ba- 
ronets. 
The French have had five military orders; viz. that of 
the Genette, inftituted by Charles Martel; but which foon 
fell, The order of the Virgin Mary, fince called the order 
of the Star, inftituted by king John, in 1352. The order 
of St. Michael, aid in 1469, by Lewis IX. The 
order of the Holy Ghoft, or the Blue Ribband; the mem- 
bers of which are firft to be knights of St. Michael. And 
the order of St. Louis, inftituted by Louis XIV., ia 
6 The princes of the blood, marfhals of France, as 
mirals, and generals, become knights of St. Louis by their 
see 
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