Definition of order

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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..

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Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..
Diabaterial :: Diabaterial (a.) Passing over the borders.
Disposition :: Disposition (n.) The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will..
Recital :: Recital (n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation..
Proceres :: Proceres (n. pl.) An order of large birds; the Ratitae; -- called also Proceri.
Indented :: Indented (a.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary..
Fimbriated :: Fimbriated (a.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.
Neat :: Neat (a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy..
Sisterhood :: Sisterhood (n.) A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively..
Duebill :: Duebill (n.) A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note..
Enaliosauria :: Enaliosauria (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders..
Postil :: Postil (n.) A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne..
Stegosaurus :: Stegosauria (n. pl.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies..
Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta..
Unorderly :: Unorderly (a.) Disorderly.
Lycopodium :: Lycopodium (n.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceae; club moss..
Firewarden :: Firewarden (n.) An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward..
Seriatim :: Seriatim (adv.) In regular order; one after the other; severally.
Malady :: Malady (n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.
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