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They are in equal order to their several
ends.

Various orders various ensigns
bear.

Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed
little short of crime.

9. 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.

Find a barefoot brother out,

One of our order, to associate me.

The venerable order of the Knights
Templars.

10. 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.

11. (Arch.) 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.


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