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Ordered   /ˈɔrdərd/   Listen
verb
Order  v. t.  (past & past part. ordered; pres. part. ordering)  
1.
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." "Warriors old with ordered spear and shield."
2.
To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
3.
To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
4.
(Eccl.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. "These ordered folk be especially titled to God." "Persons presented to be ordered deacons."
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  v. i.  To give orders; to issue commands.


adjective
ordered  adj.  
1.
Having or evincing a systematic arrangement; especially, having elements succeeding in order according to rule; as, an ordered sequence; an ordered pair. Opposite of disordered or unordered. (Narrower terms: abecedarian, alphabetical; consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive)
2.
Arranged in order.
Synonyms: orderly, regulated.
3.
In good order.
Synonyms: so(predicate).
4.
Disposed or placed in a particular kind of order. OPposite of disarranged.
Synonyms: arranged.
5.
Arranged according to a quantitative criterion.
Synonyms: graded, ranked.
6.
Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts.
Synonyms: consistent, logical, orderly.





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"Ordered" Quotes from Famous Books



... sail, and pulled the boat gently towards the beach. On this they came down, and when we jumped out, helped us to haul her up. There was one man who seemed to be the chief. He came up and shook hands with Mr Griffiths, the doctor, and me, and then ordered six of his people to stay by the boat, as we supposed to guard her. He made no objection when the mate and the doctor went back to get the muskets, but seemed to think it very natural that they should wish to be ...
— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston
... restaurant into which our friends stepped was so well aware of this, and so perfectly assured they were not of the city, that he could not forbear a little patronage of them, which they did not resent. He brought Basil what he had ordered in barbaric abundance, and charged for it with barbaric splendor. It is all but impossible not to wish to stand well with your waiter: I have myself been often treated with conspicuous rudeness by the tribe, yet I have never been able to withhold the 'douceur' that marked me for a gentleman ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... ordered, uneasily. "This fellow may not be quite as unconscious as he looks. Sometimes, people get their hearing back, before they open their eyes. Come into the library, a minute. I want to speak to you. Oh, don't look like that, about leaving him ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... and arrived at the middle school, but school was already over and nobody was there. The teacher on night-duty was out just for a while, said the janitor,—the night-watch was taking life easy, sure. I thought of visiting the principal, but being tired, ordered the rikishaman to take me to a hotel. He did this with much alacrity and led me to a hotel called Yamashiro-ya. I felt it rather amusing to find the name Yamashiro-ya the same as ...
— Botchan (Master Darling) • Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri
... He then ordered the party to take their horses, and pressed the best in Milnwood's stable into the king's service to carry the prisoner. Mrs Wilson, with weeping eyes, made up a small parcel of necessaries for Henry's compelled journey, and as she bustled about, ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


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