Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter O - Page 22
Orchises (n. pl. ) of Orchis
Orchis (n.) A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.
Orchis (n.) Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
Orchitis (n.) Inflammation of the testicles.
Orchotomy (n.) The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
Orcin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.
Ord (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.
Ordained (imp. & p. p.) of Ordain
Ordaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ordain
Ordain (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. "Battle well ordained." -- Spenser.
The stake that shall be ordained on either side. -- Chaucer.
Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month. -- 1 Kings xii. 32.
And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom ? -- Byron.
Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
Being ordained his special governor. -- Shak.
Ordain (v. t.) (Eccl.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Ordain (v.) Order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985" [syn: {ordain}, {enact}].
Ordain (v.) Appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: {ordain}, {consecrate}, {ordinate}, {order}].
Ordain (v.) Invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month".
Ordain (v.) Issue an order.
Ordain (v.) To ordain is to make an ordinance, to enact a law.
Ordain (v.) 2. In the constitution of the United States, the preamble. declares that the people "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." The 3d article of the same constitution declares, that "the judicial power shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish. "See 1 Wheat. R. 304, 324; 4 Wheat: R. 316, 402.
Ordainable (a.) Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed. -- Bp. Hall.
Ordainer (n.) One who ordains.
Ordainer (n.) A cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders.
Ordainment (n.) Ordination. [R.] -- Burke.
Ordal (n.) Ordeal. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ordalian (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Ordeal (n.) 嚴峻考驗；苦難，折磨 [C] [S1]； 2. 神裁法（古條頓族施行的判罪法，如將嫌疑犯的手浸入沸水中，受神主宰，手無損，則無罪）[U] 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.
Note: In England ordeal by fire and ordeal by water were used, the former confined to persons of rank, the latter to the common people. The ordeal by fire was performed, either by handling red-hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares, laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed, either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase, to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or danger, is derived from the ordeal. See {Wager of battle}, under {Wager}.
Ordeal (n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
{Ordeal bean}. (Bot.) See {Calabar bean}, under {Calabar}.
{Ordeal root} (Bot.) The root of a species of {Strychnos} growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft.
{Ordeal tree} (Bot.), A poisonous tree of Madagascar ({Tanghinia venenata} syn. {Cerbera venenata}). Persons suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
Ordeal (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Ordeal (n.) A severe or trying experience.
Ordeal (n.) A primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence [syn: {ordeal}, {trial by ordeal}].
Ordeal (n.) An ancient superstitious mode of tribal. When in a criminal case the accused was arraigned, be might select the mode of trial either by God and his country, that is, by jury; or by God only, that is by ordeal.
Ordeal (n.) The trial by ordeal was either by fire or by water. Those who were tried by the former passed barefooted and blindfolded over nine hot glowing ploughshares; or were to carry burning irons in their hands; and accordingly as they escaped or not, they were acquitted or condemned. The water ordeal was performed either in hot or cold water. In cold water, the parties suspected were adjudged innocent, if their bodies were not borne up by the water contrary to the course of nature; and if, after putting their bare arms or legs into scalding water they came out unhurt, they were taken to be innocent of the crime.
Ordeal (n.) It was impiously supposed that God would, by the mere contrivance of man, exercise his power in favor of the innocent. 4. Bl. Com. 342; 2 Am. Jur. 280. For a detailed account of the trial by ordeal, see Herb. Antiq. of the Inns of Court, 146.
Compare: Series
Series (n.) [C] [M] 連續；系列 [（+of）]；（郵票）套；叢書；輯；組；（棒球等的）連續比賽 A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
During some years his life a series of triumphs. -- Macaulay.
Series (n.) (Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species.
Series (n.) (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.
Series (n.) (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
Series (n.) (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel.
The parts so arranged are said to be in series.
Series (n.) (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
Order (n.) 順序，次序 [U]；整齊，有條理 [U]；狀況；良好的狀況 [U] Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as:
Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.
Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
Order (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
The side chambers were . . . thirty in order. -- Ezek. xli. 6.
Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. -- Milton.
Good order is the foundation of all good things. -- Burke.
Order (n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. -- Locke.
Order (n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. -- Dantiel.
And, pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the old order into doubt. -- Emerson.
Order (n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
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.
The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. -- Hooker.
Compare: Tranquillity
Tranquillity (n.) [Mass noun] (US T ranquility) 平靜；安靜；安寧；穩定 [U] The quality or state of being tranquil; calm.
‘Passing cars are the only noise that disturbs the tranquillity of rural life.’
Order (n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. -- Clarendon.
Order (n.) 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.
In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. -- Lamb.
Order (n.) 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.
They are in equal order to their several ends. -- Jer. Taylor.
Various orders various ensigns bear. -- Granville.
Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. -- Hawthorne.
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.
Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me. -- Shak.
The venerable order of the Knights Templars. -- Sir W. Scott.
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.
Order (n.) (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.
Note: The Greeks used three different orders, easy to distinguish, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans added the Tuscan, and changed the Doric so that it is hardly recognizable, and also used a modified Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on architecture recognized five orders as orthodox or classical, -- Doric (the Roman sort), Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of Capital.
Order (n.) (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
Note: The Linnaean artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. Natural orders are groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of their flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in botany) equivalent to a family, and may include several tribes.
Order (n.) (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
Order (n.) (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
Artificial order or Artificial system. See Artificial classification, Under Artificial, and Note to def. 12 above.
Close order (Mil.), The arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in open order.
The four Orders, The Orders four, The four orders of mendicant friars. See Friar. -- Chaucer.
General orders (Mil.), Orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction from special orders.
Holy orders. (Eccl.) The different grades of the Christian ministry; ordination to the ministry. See def. 10 above.
Holy orders. (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of conferring a special grace on those ordained.
In order to, For the purpose of; to the end; as means to.
The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our eternal happiness. -- Tillotson.
Minor orders (R. C. Ch.), Orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper.
Money order. See under Money.
Natural order. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note.
Order book. A merchant's book in which orders are entered.
Order book. (Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all orders are recorded for the information of officers and men.
Order book. A book in the House of Commons in which proposed orders must be entered. [Eng.]
Order in Council, A royal order issued with and by the advice of the Privy Council. [Great Britain]
Order of battle (Mil.), The particular disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle.
Order of the day, In legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day.
Order of a differential equation (Math.), The greatest index of differentiation in the equation.
Sailing orders (Naut.), The final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war before a cruise.
Sealed orders, Orders sealed, and not to be opened until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is at sea.
Standing order. A continuing regulation for the conduct of parliamentary business.
Standing order. (Mil.) An order not subject to change by an officer temporarily in command.
To give order, To give command or directions. -- Shak.
To take order for, To take charge of; to make arrangements concerning.
Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. -- Shak.
Syn: Arrangement; management. See Direction.
Order (v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.
Ordered (imp. & p. p.) of Order
Ordering (p pr. & vb. n.) of Order
Order (v. t.) 命令；指揮 [O2] [+（that）]；定購；叫（菜或飲料）[O1] [（+for）]；整理；安排；布置 To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
To him that ordereth his conversation aright. -- Ps. 1. 23.
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. -- Milton.
Order (v. t.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
Order (v. t.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
Order (v. t.) (Eccl.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
These ordered folk be especially titled to God. -- Chaucer.
Persons presented to be ordered deacons. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Order arms (Mil.), The command at which a rifle is brought to a position with its butt resting on the ground; also, the position taken at such a command.
Order (n.) (Often plural) A command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London".
Order (n.) A degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" [syn: order, order of magnitude].
Order (n.) Established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" [ant: disorder].
Order (n.) Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" [syn: ordering, order, ordination].
Order (n.) A condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" [syn: orderliness, order] [ant: disorder, disorderliness].
Order (n.) A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript].
Order (n.) A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" [syn: order, purchase order].
Order (n.) A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order].
Order (n.) A body of rules followed by an assembly [syn: order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure].
Order (n.) (Usually plural) The status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" [syn: Holy Order, Order].
Order (n.) A group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict" [syn: order, monastic order].
Order (n.) (Biology) Taxonomic group containing one or more families.
Order (n.) A request for something to be made, supplied, or served; "I gave the waiter my order"; "the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle".
Order (n.) (Architecture) One of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans.
Order (n.) The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" [syn: order, ordering].
Order (v.) Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" [syn: order, tell, enjoin, say].
Order (v.) Make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage".
Order (v.) Issue commands or orders for [syn: order, prescribe, dictate].
Order (v.) Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern] [ant: deregulate].
Order (v.) Bring order to or into; "Order these files" [ant: disarray, disorder].
Order (v.) Place in a certain order; "order the photos chronologically"
Order (v.) Appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order].
Order (v.) Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put, order].
Order (v.) Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place].
Orderable (a.) Capable of being ordered; tractable.
Orderer (n.) One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.
Orderer (n.) One who gives orders.
Ordering (n.) Disposition; distribution; management.
Orderless (a.) Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
Orderliness (n.) The state or quality of being orderly.
Orderlies (n. pl. ) of Orderly
Orderly (n.) (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.
Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace. -- Macaulay.
Orderly (n.) A street sweeper. [Eng.] -- Mayhew.
Orderly (a.) Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. -- Milton.
Orderly (a.) Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.
Orderly (a.) Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly . . . march." -- Clarendon.
Orderly (a.) Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men." -- Sir W. Scott.
Orderly book (Mil.), A book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded.
Orderly officer, The officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. -- Farrow.
Orderly room. The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried.
Orderly room. The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate. -- Farrow.
Orderly sergeant, The first sergeant of a company.
Orderly (adv.) According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.
You are blunt; go to it orderly. -- Shak.
Orderly (a.) Devoid of violence or disruption; "an orderly crowd confronted the president" [ant: disorderly].
Orderly (a.) Clean or organized; "her neat dress"; "a neat room" [syn: neat, orderly].
Orderly (n.) A soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer; "the orderly laid out the general's uniform".
Orderly (n.) A male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients [syn: orderly, hospital attendant].
Ordinability (n.) Capability of being ordained or appointed.
Ordinable (a.) Capable of being ordained or appointed.
Ordinal (a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.
Ordinal (a.) Of or pertaining to an order.
Ordinal (n.) A word or number denoting order or succession.
Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.
Ordinal (n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.
Ordinalism (n.) The state or quality of being ordinal.
Ordinance (n.) 法令；條令；條例；【宗】儀式，聖餐式；傳統的風俗習慣；（神或命運）注定的事 Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
Ordinance (n.) A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.
Ordinance (n.) An established rite or ceremony.
Ordinance (n.) Rank; order; station.
Ordinance (n.) Ordnance; cannon.
Ordinand (n.) One about to be ordained.
Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.
Ordinant (n.) One who ordains.
Ordinarily (adv.) According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe.
Ordinary (a.) 平常的，普通的 According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
Ordinary (a.) 通常的，平常的；普通的，平凡的；差勁的，低劣的；不精緻的 Common; customary; usual.
Ordinary (a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
Ordinaries (n. pl. ) of Ordinary
Ordinary (n.) 常事，常例，普通的人，教區首長（主教） 有權治理教區 Diocese 、代牧區 Vicariate 、監牧區 Prefecture 的首長，通常都稱（是）主教。詳見 Local ordinary。 An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
Ordinary (n.) 尋常，普通；平凡 [the S]；常任法官；遺囑驗證法官 [C] One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
Ordinary (n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
Ordinary (n.) The mass; the common run.
Ordinary (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.
Ordinary (n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Ordinary (n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
Ordinary (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
Ordinary (a.) (B1) 普通的，平常的；平凡的；一般的 Not different or special or unexpected in any way; usual.
// An ordinary neighbourhood.
// Readers of the magazine said they wanted more stories about ordinary people and fewer stories about the rich and famous.
// Her last concert appearance in Britain was no ordinary (= a very special) performance.
In the ordinary way (UK) 一般；通常 Normally, or in the way that usually happens.
// If we hadn't seen the TV programme, we would have carried on giving money to the charity in the ordinary way.
Out of the ordinary (C2) 不尋常 Unusual.
// For the police, the incident was nothing out of the ordinary/ did not seem out of the ordinary.
Ordinaryship (n.) The state of being an ordinary. -- Fuller.
Ordinate (a.) Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.
Ordinate (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.
Ordinate (v. t.) To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
Ordinately (adv.) In an ordinate manner; orderly.
Ordination (n.) 聖職之任命；律例之頒布；整頓；排列；分類 The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
Ordination (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
Ordination (n.) Disposition; arrangement; order.
Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.
Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.
Ordnance (n.) Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
Ordnance (n.) [ U ] （集合詞）軍用品，軍需品；（英國）軍械部門；軍械署 Military supplies, especially weapons and bombs.
Ordnance (n.) [ U ]（集合詞）大炮；軍械；武器 Large guns on wheels.
Ordonnance (n.) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.