order 
The lici-mancs, another Onlrr of rcliL'ioif or h-anied 
men, UIV honored amongst 1 1 H 'III : esperially SI Jell <>t* tin '111 
Mi line ill the WoolN, Illlll I'l Illr M I 
/'i/<v/i/ix, PflgrimtClb p. 454. 
(iniiiK to llnil :i bar. (""I In other nut, 
one "if i>ur order, to associate me. 
.S/,n<-., I!, ami .1., v. 2. 0. 
A* a broad general rule, nearly even |m-t Information 
institute is styled nut an llrrfrr but a " 'out;! elation "; 
lint the only 'distinction uhich can lie drawn between 
these tvvn lialnes is that oi-di-r is the wider, antl limy ill- 
i luile several coiii,'icKations within itKelf (as the Itenc- 
ilictine m-d>'i\ fin- example, includes the congregations 
of I'liiny anil of St. Main), while a conKrci;atiii " Is a 
simple unit, complete iu itself, anil neither dependent uu 
another institute nor possessed of dependent varieties of 
its own. Kiu-ijc. Ilril., X VI. 716. 
(6) All institution, partly imitated from the medieval and 
crusading orders of military monks, hut generally founded 
by a sovereign, a national legislature, or a prinee of hi^h 
rank, for the purpose of rewarding meriloriuns servire 1,\ 
the eonferrillK of a dignity. Most honorary orders consist 
of several classes, known as kni-jlit* i-omjuittions, officers, 
MMMMMbPV, ([raiid officer*, and ;ir<niil i'<,nnu<nnt- /*, otlier- 
wi.sc called ijrantl rnwxor <n'"n<l <-"i'<l'i. Man> ul i|< rs lia\ 
fewer classes, a few having only one. It Is customary to 
divide honorary orders into three ranks: (1) Those which 
admit only nobles of the highest rank, and among for- 
eigners only sovereign princes or members of reigning 
families; of this character arc the Golden Fleece (Austria 
and Spain), the Elephant (Denmark), and the(!arter(Great 
Hritiiin): it is usual to regard these three as the existing 
orders of highest dignity. (2) Those orders which are con- 
ferred upon members of noble families only, and some- 
times because of the mere fact of noble birth, without 
sperial services. (3) The orders of merit, which are sup- 
posed to be conferred for services only. Of these the L- 
giou of Honor Is the best known type. Two of the orders 
of merit may be regarded as somewhat exceptional the 
first class of the Order of St. George of Russia and the or- 
der of Maria Theresa of Austria. The former is conferred 
only upon a commanding general who has defeated an 
army of 50,000 men, or captured the enemy's capital, or 
braogllt about an honorable peace. There is now no per- 
son living who has gained this distinction regularly, though 
it has been given to a foreign sovereign. Other orders of 
merit approach these more or less nearly, as they are con- 
ferred with more or less care. The various orders have 
their appropriate insignia, consisting usually of a collar of 
design peculiar to the order, a star, cross, jewel, Iwdge, 
ribbon, or the like. It is common to speak of an order 
by its name alone, as the Darter, the Bath. An order 
is said to be conferred or bestowed upon the recipient of 
its distinction ; the recipient is said to be decorated with 
such an order; and the word order is often applied to the 
decoration or badge. See bath, (farter, knighthood, star, 
thistle, etc. 
Windsor set on Barocks border, 
That temple of thye noble order, 
The garter of a lovely dame, 
W<* gave y first device and name. 
Piittenham, 1'arthenlades, xvi. 
Knight of the noble order of Saint George, 
Worthy Saint Michael, and the Golden Fleece. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 68. 
A tributary prince of Devon, one 
Of that great Order of the Table Round. 
T''Kii</*n, Geraint. 
The various members of the Cabinet wore upon the 
breasts of their coats the orders to which they were en- 
titled. T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 92. 
7f. A series or suite ; a suit or change (as of 
apparel). 
I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a 
suit of apparel ["an order ot garments" in marginal note]. 
Judges xvii. 10. 
8. Regular sequence or succession ; succession 
of acts or events ; course or method of action 
or occurrence. 
Though it come to my remembrance somewhat out of 
order, it shall not yet come altogether out of time, for I 
will nowe tell you a conceipt whiche I had before forgotten 
to wryte. Gagcoiyne, Notes on Eng. Verse (ed. Arber), 16. 
He departed, and went over all the country of Galatia 
and Phrygia in order. Acts xviii. 23. 
Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 122. 
A mixt Relation of Places and Actions, in the same or- 
der of time in which they occurred ; for which end I kept 
a Journal of every days Observations. 
Dampier, Voyages, I., Pref. 
Pageants on pageants, in long order drawn. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 318. 
9. Regulated succession ; formal disposition or 
array ; methodical or harmonious arrangement ; 
hence, fit or consistent collocation of parts. 
Whan Merlin hadde all thinges rehereed, and Blase Itadde 
hem alle writen oon after a-nother in ordre, and by his 
bi ike haue we the knowinge ther-of. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S-X iii. 679. 
A land of darkness, as darkness itself ; and of the shadow 
of death, without any order, and where the light is as dark- 
ness. Job x. 22. 
1 hear their drums ; let 's set our men in order, 
And issue forth and bid them battle straight. 
Skalr., 3 Hen. VI., i. 2. 70. 
And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd, 
Each silver vase in mystic order laid. 
Pope, R. of the L., i. 122. 
For the world was built in order, 
And the atoms march in tune. 
Kmerton, Monadnoc. 
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10. In rln-t., tlie placing of words and members 
in a sentence in such a manner as to cont ri but e 
to force and beauty of expression, or lo Ilic 
dear i I lust ml ion ot the subject. 11. In rhixsi- 
rnl iiri-li.,n column entire (including l>a.-r, shaft, 
and capital), with a lUperilMMlinbenl entabla- 
ture, viewed as forming an architect ural whole 
or the characteristic element of a style. There 
are five orders Doric, Ionic, < 'ori nth ian, Tuscan, and Cum- 
]Kisite. (See these adjectives | Kiel} 1 1 1 .1 e r consists of 
two essential parts, a column and an entablature ; the col- 
umn is normally divided into three parts base, (haft, and 
Doric Order. Temple of Castor and Pollux (so callcd),Girgcitti, Sicily. 
a, entablature, consisting of cornice, frieze, and architrave ; A, col- 
umn, consisting of capital and shaft ; c, epistyle, which in the Doric 
order performs the function of a base. 
capital ; the entablature into three parts also architrave, 
frieze, and cornice. The character of an order Is dis- 
Slayed not only In its column, but in its general form and 
etails, of which the column is, as it were, the regulator. 
The Tuscan and Composite are Roman orders, the other 
three are properly Greek, the Roman renderings of them 
being so different from the originals as to constitute in 
fact distinct orders. The Corinthian, though of purely 
Greek origin, did not come Into extensive use before Ro- 
man authority was established throughout Greek lands. 
The temple on the side of the river seems to be of the 
greatest antiquity, and was probably built before the or- 
ders were invented. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 1. 135. 
12. Inmath.: (a) In geometry, the degree of a 
geometrical form considered as a locus of points, 
or as determined by the degree of a locus of 
points. Newton introduced the term order as applied to 
plane curves. Cayley defines the order of a relation in 
Hi-dimensional space as follows : add to the conditions as 
many arbitrary linear conditions as are necessary to make 
the multiplicity of the relation equal to m; then the 
number of points satisfying these conditions Is the order 
of the relation. Thus, the order of a plane curve is the 
number of points (real and imaginary) in which this curve 
is cut by an arbitrary right line. The order of a non-plane 
curve is the number of points in which the curve is cut by 
a plane. The order of a surface is the number of points 
in which the surface is cut by a right line. The order of 
a congruence is the number of points in which the con- 
gruence-lines lying In an arbitrary plane are cut by an ar- 
bitrary plane. The order of a complex is the number of 
points In which the curve enveloping the lines of the 
complex lying in an arbitrary plane is cut by an arbitrary 
plane, (ft) I n analysis, the numberof elementary 
operations contained in a cemplex operation ; 
also, that character of a quantity which corre- 
sponds to the degree of its algebraic expres- 
sion. See the phrases below, and also equation, 
13. Established rule, administration, system, 
or regime. 
The same I am, ere ancient'st order was, 
Or what is now received. Shale., W. T., iv. 1. 10. 
The old order changeth, yielding place to new. 
Tennyson, Morte d' Arthur. 
14. Prescribed law; regulation; rule; ordi- 
nance. 
The church hath authority to establish that for an order 
at one time which at another time it may abolish, and in 
both doth do well Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
But that great command o'ersways the order, 
She should in ground unsanctined have lodged 
Till the last trumpet Shall., Hamlet, v. 1. 261. 
15. Authority; warrant. 
Let her have needful, but not lavish, means ; 
Th ere shall be order for 't Shale., M. for M., 11. 2. 25. 
We gave them no order to make any composition to 
separate you and us in this. 
Sherley, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 282. 
16. Regular or customary mode of procedure ; 
established usage; conformity to established 
order 
rule or method of procedure; specifically. pre- 
scribed or customary moilc of proceeding in 
debater or di.sciissions. or in the conduct of 
deliberative or legislative bodies, public meet 
ilia's, etc., or conformity with tlie same : a>, tlie 
nrili f ( business; to rise to a point of iinli / , 
the motion is not in unlt-r. 
The moderator, when either of the disputants breaks the 
rules, may Interpose to keep them to order. II "" 
17. A proper state or condition; a normal, 
healthy, or efficient state. 
He has come to court this may, 
A' mounted In good order. 
Katharine Janfarie (Child's Ballads, IV. 80). 
Any of the forcmcntioncd faculties if wanting, or out of 
order, produce suitable effects in men's understandings. 
/.</.., Human I ndci standing, II. xl. | 12. 
He lost the sense that handles dally life, 
That keeps us all in order. 
Tennyson, Walking to the Mall. 
18. Ecclcx., iii liturgies, a stated form of di- 
vine service, or administration of a rite or cere- 
mony, prescribed by ecclesiastical authority: 
as, the order of confirmation ; also, the service 
so prescribed. 19. Conformity to law or es- 
tablished authority or usage; tlie desirable 
condition consequent upon such conformity; 
absence of revolt, turbulence, or confusion ; 
public tranquillity : as, it is the duty of the gov- 
ernment to uphold law and order. 
All things invite 
To peaceful counsels, and the settled state 
Of order. Hilton, V. L., li. 280. 
Without tirder there is no living In public society, be- 
cause the want thereof is the mother of confusion. 
Honker, Eccles. Polity, Till. 2. 
What Hume (e. g.) means by Justice is rather what I 
have called Order, . . . the observance of the actual sys- 
tem of rules, whether strictly legal or customary, which 
bind together the different members of any society Into an 
organic whole. //. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, p. 411. 
Tis hard to settle order once again. 
Trnnymn, Lotus-Eaters, ('boric Song. 
20f. Suitable action in view of some particular 
result or end; care; preparation; measures; 
steps: generally used in the obsolete phrase to 
take order. 
As for the money that he had promised unto the king, 
he took no good order for It. 2 Mac. iv. 27. 
I am content. Provide me soldiers, lords, 
Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ill 1. 320. 
He quickly tttolce such order with such Lawyers that he 
layd them by the heeles till he sent some of them prisoners 
for England. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, 1. 163. 
Then were they remanded to the Cage again, until fur- 
ther order should be taken with them. 
ttunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 157. 
21. Authoritative direction ; injunction; man- 
date; command, whether oral or written; in- 
struction: as, to receive orders to march; to 
disobey orders. 
As I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even 
so do ye. 1 Cor. xvl. 1. 
Give order that these bodies 
High on a stage be placed to the view. 
Shot., Hamlet, v. 2. 388. 
The magistrates of I'Umouth . . . referred themselves 
to an order of the commissioners, wherein liberty is given 
to the Massachusetts | colony | to take course with Gorton 
and the lands they had possessed. 
Winthrop, Hist New England, II. 252. 
Proud his mistress' orders to perform. 
Pope, Dunciad, ill. 263. 
On the 27th April, 1526, arrived four messengers from 
court, with orders for Don Roderlgo to return, and also to 
bring Don Hector along with him. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, III. 180. 
Specifically (a) In /aid, a direction of a court or judge, 
made or entered in writing, and not included in a judg- 
ment, A judgment is the formal determination of a trial ; 
an order is usually the formal determination of a motion. 
Orders are promulgated by the courts of law and equity, 
not only for the proper regulation of their proceedings, 
but also to enforce obedience to justice, and compel that 
which is right to be performed. wharton. 
(b) A written direction to pay money or deliver property : 
as, an order on a banker for twenty pounds ; pay to A. B. 
or order; an order to a jeweler to return a necklace to 
bearer. 
An order is a written direction from one who either has 
In fact, or in the writing professes to have, control over a 
fund or thing to another who either purports in the writ- 
ing to be under obligation to obey, or who is in fact under 
such obligation, commanding some appropriation thereof. 
(c) A direction to make, provide, or furnish anything ; a 
commission to make purchases, supply goods, etc. : as, to 
give an agent an order for groceries ; an order for canal 
stock ; the work was done to order. 
The fact is, that he seldom worked to order. Sale in 
the cloth-halls was the rule. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. clxx. 
Mr. W. . . . was entrusted with the execution of large 
orders, especially in gold and Government bonds. 
tt. Clev, Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, p. 427. 
