ORDER. 
Regular government.—As there is no church, where there 
is no order, nominiltry; fo, where the fame order and 
miniftry is, there is the fame church. Peurfon. 
The’night, their number, and the fudden aft, 
Would dafh all order, and protect their faft. Daniel. 
A fociety of dignified perfons diftinguifhed by marks of 
honour.—Princes many times make themfelves defires, 
and let tbeir hearts upon toys ; fometimes upon a build¬ 
ing; fometimes upon erefting of an order. Bacon. 
By (hining marks, diftinguifh’d they appear, 
And various orders various enfigns bear. Granville. 
A rank, or clafs.—The king commanded the high pried 
and the priefts' of the fecond order, to bring forth out of 
the temple all the veiTels. 2 Kings xxiii. 4. 
The Almighty feeing, 
From his tranfeendant feat, the faints among, 
To thofe bright orders utter’d thus his voice. Milton. 
A divifion of the people in a date. Mod commonly in 
the plural ; as, the higher orders, the"lower orders. —Too 
many of thofe, who owe their eafe and fplendour to the 
taxes raifed on the indudrious claffes, have, of late, given 
to all thofe who live by their labour, the degrading ap¬ 
pellation of the lower orders; not “ the orders of labour, 
of induftry, of ingenuity;” but, the lower orders. Gen¬ 
tlemen, I am a child of thofe lower orders: it is my glory 
to have been bred and brought up amongd thofe orders ; 
every thing, in the way of didinftion, that I have hi¬ 
therto obtained in the world, I owe to thofe orders, to 
their good example, their kindnefs, their friendly and 
faithful fupport and adherence; and to be chofen to re- 
prefent you, I fliould deem a far greater honour than to be 
the reprefentative of all the nobles in the land. Cobbett to 
the EleCiors of Coventry; 1820.—More properly in the An¬ 
gular.—It would increafe our internal trade by increafing 
the number of the middle order of fociety, and by im¬ 
proving the means of the lower order; and the higher 
order of fociety wouid receive the additional fecurity of a 
large body of perfons being placed beyond the reach of 
want, who would have an intereft in the date by having- 
property to lofe by any internal revolt. Morn. Cliron. 
Nov. 20, 1819.—A religious fraternity: 
Find a barefoot brother out, 
One of our order, to affociate me, 
Here vifiting the lick. Sha/tefpeare's Borneo and Juliet. 
fin the plural.] Hierarchical Hate.—If the faults of men 
in orders are only to be judged among themfelves, they 
are all in fome fort parties. Dryden. —Having in his youth 
made a good progrefs in learning, that he might dedicate 
himfelf more entirely to religion, he entered into holy 
orders, and in a few years became renowned for his fanc- 
tity of Ijfe. Addifon's Spectator. —Means to an end ; with 
in and to ; an adverbial exprefiion.—We fliould behave re¬ 
verently towards the Divine Majefty, and juftly towards 
men ; and, in order to the better difeharge of thefe duties, 
we fliould govern ourfelves in the ufe of fenfual delights 
with temperance. Tillotfon. —Virgins muft remember, that 
the virginity of the body is only excellent in order to the 
purity of the foul; for, in the fame degree that virgins live 
more fpiritually than other perlons, in the fame degree 
is their virginity a more excellent (fate. Bp. Taylor's Buie 
of living Holy.— One man purfues power in order to wealth, 
and another wealth in order to power; which laft is the 
fafer way, and generally followed. Swift. —Meafures; care. 
— It were meet you fliould take fome order for thefoldiers, 
which are “now firft to be difeharged and difpofed of fome 
way; which may otherwife grow to as great inconveni¬ 
ence as all this that you have quit us from. Spenfer on 
inland. 
Provide me foldiers, 
Whilft I take ordci for mine own affair;-. Shaltefpeare. 
Order, in architefture. A fyfiem of the feveral mem¬ 
bers, ornaments, and proportions, of columns and pilaf- 
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ters; or it is a regular arrangement of the projefting parts 
of a building, efpecially thofe of a column ; fo as to form 
one beautiful whole: or, order is a certain rule for,the 
proportions of columns, and for the figures which fome 
of the parts ought to have on the account of the pro¬ 
portions that are given them. There are five orders of 
columns ; three of which are Greek, viz. the Doric, Ionic, 
and Corinthian; and two Italian, viz. the Tufcan and 
Compofite; for a full defeription of which, fee the article 
Architecture, vol. 3 i. p. 68-72. 
The French is a new-contrived order, wherein the ca¬ 
pital confifts of attributes agreeing to that people; as cocks’ 
heads, fleur de lis, &c. Its proportions are Corinthian. 
Such is that of M. Le Brun, in the grand gallery at Ver- 
failles; and that of M. Le Clerc. 
M. Le Clerc gives a fecond Tufcan order, and a Spanifli 
order, befides his French order. The Tufcan he ranks 
between the firft Tufcan and Doric. Its height he makes 
23 femi-diameters 22 minutes ; the column to have 15, 
the pedeftal 5, and the entablature 3, and 22 minutes; 
and he propofes its frieze to be adorned with turtles, 
which are the arms of Tufcany. 
The Spanijh order he places between the Corinthian and 
Compofite. The whole order he makes 30 femi-diameters 
28 minutes; of which the column has 9 and 25 minutes, 
the pedeftal 16 and 18 minutes, and the entablature 4 and 
15 minutes. The horns of the abacus he fuftains with 
little volutes; the middle, in lieu of a rofe, has a lion’s 
fnout; that animal being the fymbol of Spain, and ex¬ 
prefling the ftrength, gravity, and prudence, ofthat nation. 
There has been alfo an order, where lions and unicorns 
have been made to iffue from the volutes, in compliment 
to the arms of the king of England, and called the Bri¬ 
tannic order; but all thefe diftinftions are alterations 
without improvement, and encumber, rather than orna¬ 
ment, the original figure of the antique capital. 
Order, in natural hiftory, the fubdivifion of a clafs, 
or fecond branch of fyftematical arrangement. 
Order, in military taftics, the arrangement or difpo- 
fition of things in their proper place; cuftom or manner, 
rule or difeipline ; as order of march, See. 
Order of Battle. The arrangement or difpofition of 
the different component parts of an army, in one or more 
lines, according to the nature of the ground, for the pur- 
pofe of engaging an enemy, by giving or receiving an at¬ 
tack, or in order to be reviewed, &c. When the line is 
drawn out for battle, each man, in the infantry, is lup- 
pofpd to cover 22 inches of ground in breadth, and one 
pace in depth. 
Parade Order. When a regiment of horfe or foot, a 
troop, or company, is drawn up with the ranks open and 
the officers in front, it is faid to be in parade-order. 
Clofe Order. When a battalion or company is com¬ 
manded to take clofe-order, at the word march, the ranks 
(fuppofing the men to ftand three deep) clofe within one 
pace, marching one and two paces, and then halting. Sq 
that clofe order, in ranks, comprehends an interval of one 
pace between each. r 
Open Order. When a battalion or company is com¬ 
manded to take open order, on the word march, the dref- 
fers front, and the centre and rear ranks fall back one and 
two paces, each dreffing by the right the inftant it arrives 
on the ground. So that open order comprehends an in¬ 
terval of two paces between each rank. 
Extended Order, is preparatory to rank entire, and is 
frequently praftifed in light-infantry manoeuvres. In 
order to execute this movement, the files of a battalion, 
or company, ftanding two deep, open from a given point, 
leaving juft fpace enough for one man. Sometimes (and 
indeed almoft always, when the ground will permit) ex¬ 
tended order is taken by facing the battalion, or company, 
to the right, or left, and by marching to either flank, until 
the whole has gradually doubled its original front. This 
mode is extremely Ample, and confifts in nothing more 
than open order of files from the right or left. The bat- 
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