Definition of order

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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..

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Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
Aptera :: Aptera (n. pl.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders..
Sea-bordering :: Sea-bordering (a.) Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea.
Law :: Law (n.) In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence..
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .
Recorder :: Recorder (n.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
Amphigamous :: Amphigamous (a.) Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants..
Fern :: Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size..
Con :: Con (v. t.) To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
Trident :: Trident (n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction..
Superfecundation :: Superfamily (n.) A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
Leptostraca :: Leptostraca (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms..
Tidy :: Tidy (superl.) Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy..
Two-cleft :: Two-cleft (a.) Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
Alphabetically :: Alphabetically (adv.) In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
Registrar :: Registrar (n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3..
Scatter :: Scatter (v. t.) To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order..
Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..
Aplysia :: Aplysia (n.) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix..
Aurantiaceous :: Aurantiaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceae, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type..
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