ORD 
the Stole, and of the Thifle, a = the refpective articles. 
us references under Kni 
DER of Merit. See Men a 
Ores of St. “Alexander New/fki, or the e ribband, was 
inftitu y Peter I., emperor of Ruffia; but the czarina 
Catherine L " eonkerred it inthe year 1725. ‘See ALEXANDER 
S, Religious military, are thofe inftituted in defence 
of the "faith, and ee to fay mafs; and who are pro- 
say ages 
his kind are oe knights of Malta, or of St. John of 
Jercfalon Such alfo were the knights Templars, the 
knights of eer knights - ae aes Teutonic 
on ALTA 
r Pu wees accounts ne tary orders where 
eae is not allowed, real religious ers . Pape- 
‘broch fays, it . in vain to fearch for aed orders before 
the alsa century. 
may be reduced to five kinds; viz. 
monks, canons, oer ender. and regular clerks. 
See Mowx, Can 
Father Mabillon fews, ‘that till the ninth century, almott 
all the monafteries in Europe followed the rule of St. Bene- 
di&; and that the diftin@tion of orders did not commence 
till upon the re-union of feveral monafteries into one congre- 
that a aie a a nie in the ninth 
the ft ‘that feems to diftinguith the order 
Benedi& from the reft, and to fpeak of it as a par- 
ticular order. 
White order ag ie - once of regular canons of St. 
Auguttine. UG 
Black order denoted the order of Benedidtines. 
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Orper of Charity. See Cuariry. 
Orper of St. Saviour. See yee 
Orpver, Thir See Tur 
Orner, in the Geometry of Cn See Genper, Ling, 
and Curve. 
Orners, Book of. See Boox 
RDER, Jnterlocutory. ae Lisbiet bashers 
ORDERIC, ViTAL, in B 
ography, an eles aftical hif- 
torian in the twelfth century, of eons extraGtion, but born 
in England about the year 1075. n he was ane years 
old he was fent to Normandy, ne he took the religious 
habit in the abbey of Ouche, and in 1 
dained fubdeacon. It was not till was in 
= soa ares year, that he received pies set ie from the 
s of the archbifhop of Rou uen. pafied his life 
ied in 114 
oO by a cece eel “ Hiftotis 
Eccleiaiice, lib. xiii.”? containing the hiftory of the Chrif. 
tian church, from the birth of Chrift to the year 1142, 
ORD 
= work is faid to furnifh many Ts fatts, not to 
be met with elfewhere, which relate to the hiftories of 
Normandy, of France, and En : oe was firft edited by 
Duchefne, among his «* Hiltoriz Normannorum Scriptores.” 
Gen. Biog. 
ORDERLY Srnrseant, and Orderly Men, in Military 
anguage, are thofe who are appointed to attend on general 
officers, or fuch other officers as are entitled to fuch, who 
walk = them with their arms. 
OrvERLy Book, is a book prone for every company, in 
which ‘the ferjeants write down both general and regimental 
orders, that - officers may read them.- 
O n Geegra: aby, a town < European Turkey, 
in Beflarabis ; eight miles N. of I{m 
ORDIN RDINALE, a coke ae the order or 
manner of performing divine fervice ; and feems to be the 
fame with that which was called the « al or * portuis,”’ 
and fometimes ‘¢ portiforium.”? See Rit 
O AL, in lima, an epithet pes to fuch numbers 
as mark the order of things, or in what rank they are 
aced. 
Thus, firft, fecond, tenth, hundredth, &c. are ordinal 
numbers. See CARDINAL. 
ORDINANCE, or ORDONNANCE, a law, ftatute, or 
command, of a fovereign or fuperior 
Ordinance of parliament, is ordinarily ufed in the fame 
fenfe as ftatute, or a&t of parlia 
n the parliament-rolls, acts are ee called ordinances of 
ough in fome cafes we find a differ 
nae be altered ba by king, ar and com 
ir Edward Coke — that an ordinance af carlanen 
differs from an aét, as the latter can only be made by the 
king, and the threefald pen of the eftates ; whereas the 
former may be made by one or two of them. 
Ordinance of the Foreft, is a ftatute made in the thirty- 
Se ee of Henry I. relating to foreft matters. See 
For 
a the French jurifprudence, ordonnances are fuch laws 
as are eftablifhed by the king’s authority alone. All ordon- 
nances begin with a tous prefens F a venir folut. See Carte 
ULAR. 
RDINANCE, or Ordnance, is alfo a general term for all 
forts of great ores or cannon, mortars, &c. ufed in war. 
See CANNON an 
The halla and fervieablenet of a piece of ordnance 
depen uch on icknefs of the metal, efpecially 
about its ‘inne aa breech, which is called its Sortie 
Sication 
Of this there were three degrees, both for cannons and 
culverins. Such were the ordinarily fortified, alfo called 
legitimate pieces. Thofe whofe fortification is leffen ed, were 
called the daflard pieces. ‘Thofe doubly fortified were called 
seagate pieces. 
ortification of a gun is reckoned from the thicknefs 
of thie areal at the touch-hole, at the trunnions, and at the 
muzzle, in proportion to the diameter of the bore. For 
the dimenfions of pieces of ae now in ufe, and 
of their various parts, fee CANN 
ORDINANCE, in Painting. See OR DONNANCE. 
Orpinance, or Ordnance Office, is the ftanding grand ma- 
gazine of arms, habiliments, a and utenfils of war. 
as well by fea as land ; of thofe lodged in the 
Tower, but in all the pee eles, forts, &c. ck Great 
tain, 
