OPage 107
- English Word Ordaining Definition of Ordain
- English Word Ordainment Definition Ordination.
- English Word Ordal Definition Ordeal.
- English Word Ordalian Definition Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
- English Word Ordeal Definition An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
- English Word Ordeal Definition Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
- English Word Ordeal Definition Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
- English Word Order Definition Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
- English Word Order Definition Of material things, like the books in a library.
- English Word Order Definition Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
- English Word Order Definition Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
- English Word Order Definition Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
- English Word Order Definition The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
- English Word Order Definition Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
- English Word Order Definition That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
- English Word Order Definition A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
- English Word Order Definition 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.
- English Word Order Definition 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.
- English Word Order Definition 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.
- English Word Order Definition 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.