(n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established
succession or harmonious relation; method; system
(n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.
(n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a
discource.
(n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
(n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as,
the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
(n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in
the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom;
fashion.
(n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance;
general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a
community or an assembly.
(n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or
regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the
senate.
(n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
(n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a
direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a
building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for
blankets are large.
(n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or
suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade;
especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in
the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or
sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high
order.
(n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or
rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of
convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the
Franciscan order.
(n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or
bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the
plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter
some grade of the ministry.
(n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of
the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as
the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical
architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
(n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters
in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
(n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a
manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
(n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the
same as the degree of its equation.
(n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to
arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate;
to dispose; to direct; to rule.
(n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to
advance.
(n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a
carriage; to order groceries.
(n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the
ranks of the ministry.
(v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.
