order 
He shall order the lumps upon the pure candlestick be 
fore the I-ord continually. Lev. xxiv. I 
The rhymes are dazzled from their place, 
And order'd words asunder fly. 
Tennymn, Day- Dream, Prol. 
4. To dispose; adjust; regulate; direct; man- 
age; govern; ordain; establish. 
No force for that, for it Is order'd so, 
That I may leap both hedge anil dyko full well. 
Wyatt, I'lie Courtier's Life, To John Polns. 
They [l!toplans| ilutlnc virtue to he life ordered accord, 
ing to nature, anil that we lie hereunto cu'diiini-d of tiod. 
Sir T. Mure, rtiipin (tr. by Robinson^ II. 7. 
Order my steps in thy word, and let not any iniquity 
luve doniiiiion over me. Ps. cxix. 1.1:1. 
If I know how or which way to order these affairs 
Thus thrust disorderly Into my hand*. 
Never believe mo. Skat., Rich. II., ii. 2. Mi. 
-he will order all things duly, 
When beneath his roof they come. 
Tennyson, Lord of Burlclgh. 
5. To instruct authoritatively or imperatively ; 
give an order or command to; command : hid : 
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. 
Shall., Rich. II., v. 3. 140. 
The I*resident of Panama had strictly ordered that none 
should adventure to any of the Islands for Plantains. 
Darnpier, Voyages, I. 2(Hi. 
6. To command to be made, done, issued, etc.; 
give a commission 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 nrtleriu'i from my own tailor. 
Thackeray, Mrs. Perkins's Ball, i. 
Another new issue of 100 millions United States notes 
was ordered on motion of Mr. Stevens. 
H. Clem, Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, p. 83. 
To order about, to send to and fro on tasks or errands ; 
assume authority over ; dictate to; domineer over. To 
order arms. In military drill, to bring the butt of a fire- 
arm 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-tip 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 (6r'der-a-bl), a. [< order + -able.'} 
Capable of being ordered; biddable; obedient; 
docile. 
The king's averseuess to physick, and impatience under 
it, ... was quickly removed above expectation ; the king 
(contrary to his custome) being very arderable in all his 
sicknesse. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. vii. 22. (Duties.) 
order-book (6r'der-buk), . 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. (t>) A book in the Hritish House of 
Commons in which members are required to enter mo- 
tions 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 headquar- 
ters, in which orders are written for the information of 
officers and men. Each company also keeps one. Wilhelm. 
order-class (6r'der-klas), n. The number of 
lines of a congruence which are cut by two 
arbitrary lines. 
orderer (dr'der-er), . 1. One who arranges, 
disposes, or regulates ; one who keeps in order, 
or restores to order. 
Yon have . . . chosen me to be the judge of the late 
evils happened, nrdererot the present disorders, and final- 
ly protector of this country. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, v. 
But it is no harm for Him, who is by right, and in the 
greatest propriety, the Supreme Orderer of all things, to 
order everything in such a manner as it would be a point 
of wisdom in Him to chuse that they should be ordered. 
Edward*, On the Freedom of the Will, iv. 9. 
2. One who gives orders; one who orders or 
commands ; a commander, ruler, or governor, 
ordering (6r'd6r-ing), . [Verbal n. of order, 
c.] 1. Disposition; distribution. 
These were the ordering of them in their service to come 
into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, un- 
der Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had com- 
manded him. 1 Chron. ixiv. 19. 
2. In the Anglican Ch., ordination; the act of 
ordaining or conferring orders: as, the order- 
inn of deacons; the ordering of priests. 
The Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, 
and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately set forth in 
the time of Edward the Sixth, and confirmed at the same 
time by authority of Parliament, doth contain all things 
necessary to such Consecration and Ordering; neither hath 
It anything that of itself is superstitious and ungodly. 
Book of Common Prayer (Eng.), Articles of Religion, xxxvi. 
3. Arrangement; adjustment; settlement. 
We need no more of your advice ; the matter, 
The loss, the gain, the ordering on 't. is all 
Properly ours. Shale., W. T., II. 1. 168. 
Secondly, a due ordering of our words, that are to pro- 
ceed from, and to express our thoughts ; which is done by 
pertinence and brevity of expression. 
South, Sermons, II. HL 
4145 
4. Government; management: administration. 
As the sun when It arixeth In the hij-h li>-;iven; BO Is the 
beauty of a good wife in the ordering uf her house. 
Ecclus. xxvi. 16. 
orderless (6r'der-les), a. [< order + -/<;**.] 
Without rule, regularity, or method ; disorderly. 
All form Is formless, order orderleK, 
Save what is opposite to England's love. 
Shale., K. John, in 
This order with her sorrow she accords, 
Which arderlejt* all form of order brake ; 
So then began her words, and thus she spake. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, II. 81. 
orderliness (or'der-li-nes), n. Orderly state or 
condition; regularity; order. 
Thanks to the orderlinem of things, dangers have their 
premonitions. J. Ward, lincyc. Brit., XX. 78. 
orderly (or'der-H). a. and . [= D. ordelijl; = 
MlAi. ordclil; = MIX;. imlmlich, G. ordt-ntlicli 
= S\v. Dan. ordentlig; as order 4- -fy 1 .] I. (i. 
1. Conformed or conforming to good order or 
arrangement; characterized by method or reg- 
ularity, or by conformity to established order; 
regular; methodical; harmonious. 
Thechtldren orderly, and mothers pale 
For fright, 
Long ranged on a rowe stode round about. 
Surrey, . Km-iil. ii. 
As when the total kind 
Of birds, In orderly array on wing, 
Came summon 'd over Eden to receive 
Their names of thee. Hilton, P. L., vi. 74. 
Her thick brown hair was smoothly taken off her broad 
forehead, and put In a very orderli/ fashion under her linen 
cap. Mr*. Gatfrell, Sylvia's Lovers, lii. 
This orderly succession of tints, gently blending into 
one another, Is one of the greatest sources of beauty that 
we are acquainted with. 
0. JT. Rood, Modern Chromatics, p. 27s. 
2f. In accordance with established regulations : 
duly authorized. 
As for the orders established, sith the law of nature, of 
God, and man do all favour that which is in being till or- 
derly judgement of decision be given against It, it is but 
justice to exact obedience of you. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
3. Observant of rule or discipline ; not unruly ; 
without uproar; deliberate; peaceful or proper 
in behavior. 
He would not swear ; . . . and gave such orderly and 
well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness that I would 
have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth 
of his words. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 60. 
And now what cure, what other remedy, 
Can to our desp'rate wounds be ministred? 
Men are not good but for necessity ; 
Nor orderly are ever born, but bred. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, vii. 3. 
Perkin, . . . considering the delay of time, and obseru- 
Ing their orderly and not tumultuary arming, doubted the 
worst. Bamn, Hist Hen. VII., p. 141. 
4. Milit., of or pertaining to orders, or to the 
communication or execution of orders ; on duty : 
as, orderly drummer; orderly room Orderly 
book (tnilit.). a book kept in each troop or company in a 
regiment for the insertion of general or regimental orders. 
Orderly Officer, the officer of the day that is, the of- 
ficer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to superintend 
matters of cleanliness, food, etc. ; especially, the officer of 
the day on duty at the headquarters of an army in the Held. 
Orderly room, a room in barracks used as the office of 
a company. Wilhelm. Orderly sergeant, in the United 
States army and marine corps, the senior sergeant of every 
company or guard of marines. Syn. 1. Orderly implies 
more love of order than either methodical or systematic. 
3. Peaceable, quiet, well-behaved. 
II. n.', pi. orderlies (-liz). 1. A private sol- 
dier or a non-commissioned officer who attends 
on a superior officer to carry orders or messages. 
2. An attendant in a ward of a hospital whose 
duty it is to keep order among the patients, see 
to their wants, preserve cleanliness, etc. 3. 
One who keeps things in order generally and 
preserves neatness. See the quotation. [Eng.] 
But sweeping and removing dirt Is not the only occupa- 
tion of the street-order*.)/. ... He is also the watchman 
of house-property and shop-goods; the guardian of reti- 
cules, pocket-books, purses, and watch-pockets ; the expe- 
rienced observer and detector of pick-pockets ; the ever 
ready, though unpaid, auxiliary to the police constable. 
Ma Hi,- a'. London Labour and London Poor, II. 260. 
orderly (6r'der-li), adc. [= D. ordelyk = OHG. 
ordertltcho, MHO. ordenliche, G. ordentlich = 
Da,n. ordentlig; fromtheadj.] According to due 
order; regularly; duly; properly; decorously. 
They went all In couples very orderly. 
Coryot, Crudities, I. 104. 
Thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keenest the law. 
Acts xii. 24. 
You are too blunt ; go to it orderly. 
5fto*.,T. of the 8., II. 1. 45. 
Hee apprehends a iest by seeing men smile, and laughes 
orderly himselfe when it conies to his tnrne. 
Bp. Karle, Micro-cosmographie, A Meere Formall Man. 
ordinabilityt (6r*di-na-bil'j-ti), n. [< ML. 
orilinabiUta(t-)s, ordination, < ordinabilis, ordi- 
ordlnance 
nable: see <>rdi>iahl<-.] Tlic ipnility of being 
orilinabli', or rapable of being ordained or ap- 
lioinli'd. /(//. Hull, \Vnrks. I. :tt>7. 
ordinablet (or'di-na-bl), a. [< Mil. ordiuable, 
< UK. ordinable, < ML. ordinnhilis, < L. ni'ilimn-i , 
ordain, order: soe nrilnin, urdi-r, c.] 1. Capa- 
ble of being ranked or estimated: propor- 
tional; relative. 
And euery thing, though It be good, It Is not of hymself 
good, but it to good by that it Is urdiiuiU? to the greate 
goodnesse. Testament of Loce t 11. 
2. Capable of being adjusted, fitted, prepared, 
ordained, or appointed. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of 
Mankind, p. 5. 
ordinaire (6r-di-nar'), . [F.: an abbreviation 
for tin in-ill iniirt', ordinary (table) wine: see 
o/'iliimi-i/.] Wine, usually of a low grade, such 
as is customarily served at an ordinary. See 
ordinary, n., 6. 
ordinal (or'di-nal), . and H. [< ME. ordin-iii. 
< OF. (and F.) ordinal =Sp. Pg. ordinal = It. 
ordiimli, < l.lj. ordiiiiilix, of order, denoting or- 
der (as a numeral), < L. ordo (ordin-), order: 
see order, .] I. a. 1. Noting position in an 
order or series: an epithet designating one of 
that class of numerals which describe an ob- 
ject as occupying a certain place in a series of 
similar objects; first, second, third, etc., are 
ordinal numbers. 2. In nut. liixt., pertaining 
to, characteristic of, or designating an order, 
as of animals, or a family of plants: as, ordinal 
terms; a group of ordinal value; ordinal dis- 
tinctions ; ordinal rank. 
There is not known to be a single ordinal form of insect 
extinct. Huxley, Origin of Species, p. 49. 
II. H. 1. A numeral which designates the 
place or position of an object in some particu- 
lar series, as first, second, third, etc. 2. A body 
of regulations, (a) Any book registering or regulating 
order, succession, or usage. 
He hath after his ordinall 
Assigned one in special!. 
Cower, Conf. Amant, vii. 
i/o A book containing the orders and constitutions of a 
religious house or a college. /.'. Philliits, 1706. 
As prouost pryncypall 
To teaeh them theyr ordynaU. 
Skelton, Poems, Phyllyp Sparowe, 1. 555. 
(c) In England before the Reformation, a book directing 
in what manner the services for the canonical hours should 
be said throughout the year ; a directory of t he daily office : 
also known as the ordinale. pica, or pie. It contained a 
calendar, and gave the vaiiations in the choir offices ac- 
cording to the day or season. 
The Ordinal was a directory, or perpetual calendar, so 
drawn up that it told how each day s service, the year 
through, might easily be found. 
Kock, ( hurch of our Fathers, III. It, 21S. 
(<f) In the Anylican Ch. since the Reformation, a book 
containing the forms for making, ordaining, and conse- 
crating bishops, priests, and deacons ; a collection of of- 
ficers prescribing the form and manner of conferring holy 
orders. The ordinal was first published in Ei>glih in 
1550, and was slightly changed in 1552 and 16K2. Although 
technically a separate book, it has always since 1552 been 
bound with the Prayer-book. 
ordinale (6r-di-na'le), n.; pi. ordinalia (-li-a). 
[ML., neut. of ordinalis: see ordinal.] Same 
as ordinal, 2 (c). 
ordinalism (or'di-nal-izm), . [< ordinal + 
-!'!.] The quality of being ordinal. Latham. 
ordinance (or'di-nans), . [< ME. ordinaunce, 
ordenannce, < OF. ordinance, ordenance, ordo- 
nance, ordonnance, F. ordonnance = Pr. ordc- 
nansa, ordonnansa = Sp. ordenan;a = Pg. ordc- 
naiiqa = It. ordinansa, < ML. ordinaniia, an or- 
der, decree, < L. ordinan(t-)n, ordering, ordain- 
ing: see ordiiiant. Cf. ordnance, ordonnance.'] 
If. Ordering; disposition; arrangement. 
And marching thrise In warlike ordinance, 
Thrfse lowted lowly to the noble mayd. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. iii. 5. 
The Ordinance and Design of most of the Royal and great 
Gardens in and about Paris are of his |M. le Nostre's] In- 
vention. Litter, Journey to Paris, p. 26. 
2f. Orderly disposition ; proper arrangement; 
regular order; due proportion. 
I have no womnien sufflsant certayn 
The chambres for tarraye in ordinance 
After my luat, and therfor wolde I fayn 
That thyn were all swiche maner governance. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 90S. 
3t. Order; rank; dignity; position. 
Woollen vassals, things created 
To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads . . . 
When one but of my ordinance stood up 
To speak of war and peace. Shot., Cor., lii. 2. 12. 
4t. Preparation; provision; array; arrange- 
ment. 
Wel may men knowe that so gret ordinance 
May no man tellen in a litcl clause. 
Chaucer. Man of Law's Tale, L 152. 
