Definition of order

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Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate..

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Antimetabole :: Antimetabole (n.) A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
Size :: Size (v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts..
Tubularian :: Tubularian (n.) Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.
Percesoces :: Percesoces (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes..
Extraordinary :: Extraordinary (a.) Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies..
Two-parted :: Two-parted (a.) Divided from the border to the base into two distinct parts; bipartite.
Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
Seventieth :: Seventieth (a.) Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age..
Injunction :: Injunction (n.) That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
Flank :: Flank (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
Seaboard :: Seaboard (a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town..
Convert :: Convert (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir..
Skirt :: Skirt (n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anythin.
Precede :: Precede (v. t.) To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment..
Cluniac :: Cluniac (n.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a..
Engarboil :: Engarboil (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to disturb.
Euphrasy :: Euphrasy (n.) The plant eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes..
Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders..
Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..
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