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• order (subs.):

1. ordo, ĭnis, m. ("ordinem sic definiunt, compositionem rerum aptis et accommodatis locis:" Cic. Off. 1, 40, 143): to reduce things to o., res in o. redigere, Auct. Her. 3, 9, init.: to observe, adhere to a certain o., o. servare, tenere, Cic. Ph. 5, 13, 35. Esp. in certain adverb. phrr.: in (due) o., ordine, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 53: Cic.: also, in ordinem: to keep accounts in (regular) o., tabulas in o. conficere, Cic. R. Com. 2, extr.: and ex ordine (in due o., in turn), Cic. Verr. 4, 64, 143: without o., nullo ordine, Cic. (in Kr.); sine ordine, Caes. (in Kr.). Join: ordo et dispositio [argumentorum], Cic. de Or. 2, 42, 179. See also arrangement.
2. descriptio (lit. drawing or mapping out: hence, system or order): Join: descriptio atque ordo, Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36. To arrange in o.: (1). ordĭno, 1: to arrange in o. the parts of a speech, o. partes orationis, Cic. Inv. 1, 14, 19: to draw up an army in o. of battle, aciem o., Just. 11, 9, med.: Vitr. 3, 14: v. infr. (II.). (2). dīgĕro, dispōno, 3: v. to arrange. To throw out of o., turbare, disjicere: v. disorder. Phr.: the o. of nature, *naturae rerum constantia atque ordo; mundi stabilis ordo seriesque rerum omnium (cf. ordo seriesque causarum, Cic. Div. 1, 55, 125: continuatio seriesque rerum, id. N. D. 1, 4, extr.): v. regularity.

1. expr. by ăcies (defined by Veg. as, exercitus instructus, Mil. 3, 14): to form troops in o. of battle, a. instruere, Caes. B. G. 1, 22; ordinare, Veg. l. c.: Just. (ordinare refers primarily to the disposition of troops; instruere, to the preparation for battle): having remarked the Persian o. of battle, a. Persarum conspecta, Front. 2, 3, 3: a slanting o. of battle, obliqua a., ib. 2, 3, 1. So by exercitus (in connexion with ordino, instruo): he led forth his army in such o. that ..., ita ordinatum produxit exercitum, ib. 2, 3, 4: cf. ib. § 3, simili ratione suos ordinavit, he adopted a corresponding o. of battle.
2. ordĭnātio (late): this kind of o., hoc genus ordinationis, ib. § 4.
3. instructionis ordo (late): ib. § 4: also, instructura, ib. § 17. Phr.: to march in good o., ordinatim ire (opp. to passim), Brut. in Cic. Fam. 11, 13: to advance out of o., incomposite venire, Liv. 25, 37, med.

III. Regularity, observance of order: Phr.: to observe moderation and o. in things, rebus modum quendam et ordinem adhibere, Cic. Off. 1, 5, extr.: a lover of o., quem disposita omnia et ordinata delectant, cf. Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 2; compositus ordinatusque vir, Sen. V. B. 8, 3; qui omnia ordine suo peragere solet, cf. Plin. Ep. l. c. § 4: o. is Heaven's first law, *lege atque ordine omnia fiunt.
IV. A direction, mandate:

1. jussum; for which in abl. use jussu, by the o. of ... (so, injussu, without o.): to execute o.s, jussa efficere, Sall. Jug. 24: to refuse to obey o.s., j. detrectare, Tac. A. 3, 17: by your o., vestro jussu, Cic. Man. 9, 26: by o. of the people, jussu populi, Nep. Timoth. 3.
2. mandātum; for which in abl. use mandatu (a charge, injunction, commission: whereas jussum is an authoritative o.): to give any one o.s concerning a thing, de aliqua re mandata alicui dare, Cic. Fam. 3, 1, 2: by my o.s, mandatu meo, Cic. Fam. 2, 11: by o. of the praetor, mandatu praetoris, Suet. Caes. 7: v. commission.
3. impĕrātum (a military command): to obey an o., i. facere, Caes. B. G. 5, 37: more freq. pl., imperata facere, ib. 2, 3: according to o.s, ad imperatum, ib. 6, 2. (Abl. imperatu, v. rare: Amm.)
4. impĕrium (authority; orders, collectively): to obey o.s, imperio parere, Caes. B. G. 5, 2: v. authority, command. Phr.: to obey o.s, dicto parere, Liv. 9, 41 (foll. both by gen. and dat. of person obeyed; the gen. depending upon subs. dicto; the dat. upon verbal phr.): to carry out o.s (to the letter), ad praescriptum agere, Caes. B. C. 3, 51: to give o.s, imperare, praecipere, mandare, etc.; v. to command, instruct (II.).

1. rescriptum (an imperial rescript): Tac.: Ulp.: v. rescript.
2. perscriptio (a written assignment of money): Cic. Att. 12, 51. So, to give such an o., perscribere: o.s were given on the treasury, a quaestore perscribebantur, Liv. 24, 19 (Lidd. Rom. i. 384).
3. ēdictum (an authoritative proclamation, or a summary of orders); v. edict.

1. ordo: the senatorian, equestrian, o., o. senatorius, equestris, Cic. pass.: less freq. of classes not enjoying dignity of position: of the libertine o., libertini o., Suet. Gr. 18. In mod. Lat. used of various bodies: the o. of the Garter, *periscelidis o.: the o. of the Golden Fleece, *o. velleris aurei: so of the monastic orders: there were three o.s of begging Franciscans, Franciscanorum mendicantium triplex o. erat, Eras. Coll. i. 257, n.
2. corpus, collēgium: v. corporation.
3. *sŏcĭĕtas (late): of the o. of Jesuits, *e societate Jesu. Phr.: the lower o.s, vulgus; and in later writers, plebs (v. lower, II.): belonging by birth to the equestrian o., equestri loco natus, Cic. Rep. 1, 6: this gives membership of the equestrian o., quae equestris nobilitas est, Tac. Agr. 4.

VII. In architecture: gĕnus, ĕris, n.: the designations of the three o.s, trium g. nominationes, Vitr. 4, 1, 3: the usages of the Ionic o., Ionici g. mores, ib. 4, pref. Phr.: to treat of the principles and usages of the Dorian and Corinthian o.s, de Doricis Corinthiisque institutis et moribus dicere, ib. pref.: so, de Ionicis et Corinthiis institutionibus, ib. 4, 2, extr.: to explain the rules of the Doric o., Doricam rationem explicare, ib.: after the Doric o., Dorico more, ib. 4, 3, 3. Vitr. also uses the expr., symmetriae (Doricae, etc.) = Dorici generis ratio: ib. 4, 3, extr.: et al.
VIII. Only pl., in phr., holy orders: to take o.s, ordinari; secundum ritus ecclesiae consecrari, ordinari: cf. Conf. Angl. Art. 36: concerning (holy) o.s, *de ordine [clericorum], Conf. Wirt.: to be admitted to o.s, *in ordinem clericorum institui: their o.s are not thought valid, *episcopi sacerdotesque eorum haud rite consecrari existimantur.

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