An order: a rewe: a ranke: a range: a rap: a course. The estate of men concerning fortune and goodes, the men of one estate or order. The dignitie of men of one estate. Angulares ordines. Colum. Discretus ordo. Quint. Longus ordo. Virg. A long ranke or rewe of people. Magnus ordo seculorum. Virg. A great course of yeares in order following. Mutatus ordo. Lucret. Obliquus ordo signorÛ. Virg. The ouerthwart circle wherein the signes be: the Zodiacke. In ordine, Vide IN præpositionem. Ordorerum & vicissitudo. Cicero. The order and course of things in following one an other. Ordo & opportunitas retum. Cic. Incredibilis rei ordo. Quint. Ordo & modus omnium quæ fiunt, quæque dicuntur. Cic. The order and measure. Ordo & dispositio argumentorum. Cic. Ordo seriésque causarum. Cic. Rectus quæstionum ordo. Quint. Ordinis & collocationis via eadem videtur. Cic. Prius ordine, & Posterius ordine contraria. Horat. Adducere in ordinem, Vide ADDVCO. Ex inordinato in ordinÊ adducere. Ci. To bring in an order. Administrare aliquid ordine. Cic. Asfert maximè lumen memoriæ ordo. Cic. Collocare quædam ex ordine. Author ad Heren. Compellare aliquos ex ordine. Cic. Componere ordinem rei gerentlæ. Vide COMPONO. Conseruare ordinem suum. Cic. Vt sunt tria tempora, ita ordo terum tribus momentis consettus est. Quint. The order of things is compact of three partes. Terno consurgunt ordine remi. Virgilius. There were three rewes of owers going an a side. Conuertere ordinem votorum, Vide CONVERTO. Perpetuo ordine descendere. Ouid. In connting auncetors to descende in continuall order from the first to him that we speake of. Ordine aliquid dicere. Terent To tell in order. Dicero sententiam ex ordine. Cicer. To shew their opinions in course. Dirigere in quincÛcem arborum ordines. C. Vide quincÛx. Disiecta membra in ordinÊ disponere. Sen. To set in order. Dispensare atque disponere inuenta ordine. Cic. Dare ordinem dicendi. Quint. Effari ordinem rei alicuius Sen. Efficere ordinem. Quint. Exit in longum rerum ordo. Quint. Explicari ordinem alicuius rei. Quint. Explicare ordines temporum. Cic. Ordinem facere. Quintil. To keepe or vse an order: to make an order. vt, Quis ordo faciendos? Rectè atque ordine fecerunt. Cicer. They did well and as they should doe. Multa verba non totÛ declinationis ordinem ferunt. Quint. Habere locos ex ordine. Author ad Heren. To haue places by heart, in an order as they slande. Immutare ordinem verborum. Cic. Longo ordine incedunt Virg. Rectum ordinem, & fræna inijcere vaganti licentiæ. Horat. To bring wandring libertie into a good order, and to bridle it. Instituere ordinem. Quint. To begin an order. Interrogate ordine. Cic. Interrumpere ordinem, Vide INTERRVMPO. Inuertere ordinem, Vide INVERTO. Locare ordine aliquid. Virg. Memora ordine vt occœperas. Plautus. Tell on in order as thou beganst. Migrare ordine. Lucret. Narrare rem ordine. Terent. Maior rerum mihi nascitur ordo. Virg. Permutatus ordo. Quint. Pertuibatione rationis atque ordinis peccatur, quicquid peccatur. Cic. Perturbare ætatum ordinem. Cic. Ponere ordine. Virg. To sat in range or rew. Rationem ordinis & disponendarum rerum quærere. Cic. Recitare ex ordine aliquid. Cic. To recite in order. Redigere in ordinem. Author ad Heren. Reserre ordine. Ouid. To tell in order. Referre se ad ordinent. Cic. In ordine referre aliquid. Virg. To tell a thing in his course. In ordinem reponere, Vide IN præpositionem. Retexere ordinem. Ouid. Retro agere ordines. Quintil. Vide RETRO. Sequi ordinem. Cic. Ordine rem scire. Plaut. Stare ordine. Quint. Triplici stant ordine dentes. Ouid. He hath three rewes of teeth. Structa spieæ ordine fruges. Cic. Tenere rem ordine. Plautus. To know all the thing in order as it was done. Veníre in ordinem. Quint. Vertitur ordo. Virg. Ordo aliquando ponitur pro eo quod vulgus starum vocat. A state or order: a degree. vt Ordo Senatorius, Ordo Equestris. Cic. The state of the nobles: the state of gentlemen. Ordo publicanorum. Cicer. The order or state of the gentlemen that were feefermes. Præstantior ordo Tribuni. Stat. Appropinquare alicui ordini. Vide APPROPINQVO. Ascribi ordini alicui. Horat. To be appointed to any estate. Conijcere in ordinem, Vide CONIICIO. Nullo ordine, Vide NVLLVS. A nostro ordine. Cic. Si omnes vno ordine habetis Achiuos. Virg. If yee esteeme all the Grecians to be in like guilt, or in like state for their offence. Ordines ducere. Cic. To be a capitayne: to leade bandes of men. Lentus profectionis ordo. Quint. Abrumpuntur ordines laxati. Tac. Arayes set wyde be soone broken. Obuertere ordines, Vide OBVERTO. Ordinem ducere, pertranslationem. Quintil. To followe or keepe an order. Ordines. Cicer. The states of people in a common weale, as the cleargie, the nobles and gentlemen, the conimons. Ordo amplissimus, senatorius vocitabatur. Cic. Meus me ordo irrideat. Plaut. They that are as poore as I, or of the same state that I am, may mocke me, or laugh me to scorne. Homo ordinis sui frugalissimus. Cic. Ordinis inferioris amici. Cic. Friendes that be of lower estate than we be. In ordinem redigere, vide Cogere in ordinem in COGO. Cogere se in ordinem, Vide COGO. Extra ordinem. Paulus. Tranquil. Out of order or course: not keeping the accustomed processe: fingnlarly: extraordinarily. Clm & extra ordinem accepit pecuniam reo iudex. Cic. Extra ordinem, metaphoricè. Cic. Adeam spem quam extra ordinem de teipso habemus. To that hope which peculiarly, or for certaine particulat causes we haue of you.

I. In gen.: ordinem sic definiunt compositionem rerum aptis et accommodatis locis, Cic. Off. 1, 40, 142: vis ordinis et collocationis, id. ib. 1, 40, 142: arbores in ordinem satae, i. e. planted in a quincunx, Varr. R. R. 1, 7; cf. Cic. Caecil. 8, 22; id. Sen. 17, 59.—

B. Esp., right order, regular succession: fatum appello ordinem seriemque causarum, Cic. Div. 1, 55, 125: nihil esse pulchrius in omni ratione vitae dispositione atque ordine, Col. 12, 2: adhibere modum quendam et ordinem rebus, Cic. Off. 1, 5, 17: mox referam me ad ordinem, will soon bring myself to order, return to order, id. Ac. 2, 20, 67: res in ordinem redigere, to reduce to order, Auct. Her. 3, 9, 16; so, in ordinem adducere, Cic. Univ. 3: ordinem conservare, id. Rosc. Com. 2, 6: eundem tenere, to preserve, id. Phil. 5, 13, 35: sequi, id. Brut. 69, 244: immutare, to change, id. Or. 63, 214: perturbare, to disturb, id. Brut. 62, 223: cogere or redigere in ordinem, to reduce to order, to humble, degrade: decemviri querentes, se in ordinem cogi, Liv. 3, 51; 3, 35; Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 1; Quint. 1, 4, 3; so, in ordinem redactus, Suet. Vesp. 15; cf. trop.: gula reprimenda et quasi in ordinem redigenda est, Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5.—

C. Adverb. expressions.

1. Ordine, in ordinem, per ordinem, in ordine, ex ordine, in order, in turn: Hegioni rem enarrato omnem ordine, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 53; Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 17; Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28: interrogare, Cic. Part. 1, 2: tabulae in ordinem confectae, id. Rosc. Com. 2, 6: ordine cuncta exposuit, Liv. 3, 50, 4; 30, 15, 1: sortiti nocte singuli per ordinem, Quint. 4, 2, 72: hos Corydon, illos referebat in ordine Thyrsis, Verg. E. 7, 20; id. A. 8, 629: ut quisque aetate et honore antecedebat, ita sententiam dixit ex ordine, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64, 143: ordine se vocante, when his turn came, Macr. S. 2, 2, 12: in ordine vicis, Vulg. Luc. 1, 8.—

2. Ordine, regularly, properly, appropriately: omnia ut quidque Egisti ordine scio, Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 15: rem demonstravi ordine, id. Mil. 3, 3, 2; id. Capt. 2, 3, 17 Brix ad loc.: an id recte, ordine, e re publicā factum esse defendes? Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, 194: si hoc recte atque ordine factum videtur, id. Quint. 7, 28.—

3. Ex ordine, in succession, without intermission: vendit Italiae possessiones ex ordine omnes, Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 4: septem illum totos perhibent ex ordine menses Flevisse, Verg. G. 4, 507; cf. id. A. 5, 773.—

4. Extra ordinem.

a. Out of course, in an unusual or extraordinary manner: extra ordinem decernere provinciam alicui, Cic. Prov. Cons. 8, 19: crimina probantur, in an illegal manner, Dig. 48, 1, 8.—

b. Extraordinarily, i. e. uncommonly, eminently, especially: ad eam spem, quam extra ordinem de te ipso habemus, accedunt tua praecipua, Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 3.—

II. Transf. concr.

A. In gen.

1. Tres ordines lapidum, three courses of stones, Vulg. 3 Reg. 6, 36.—In building, a row, course, or layer of stones, etc.: obstructis in speciem portis singulis ordinibus caespitum, Caes. B. G. 5, 51: alius insuper ordo adicitur, id. ib. 7, 23: tot premit ordinibus caput, tiers or layers of ornaments, Juv. 6, 502. —

2. A row of benches or seats: terno consurgunt ordine remi, in three rows of oar-banks, Verg. A. 5, 120: sex ordinum navem invenit Xenagoras, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 208.—In the theatre, a row of seats: post senatores ex vetere instituto quatuordecim graduum ordines equestri ordini assignati fuere, Suet. Aug. 44: sedisti in quatuordecim ordinibus, Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 44.—

3. A train of servants or attendants: comitum longissimus ordo, Juv. 3, 284.—

B. In milit. lang.

1. A line or rank of soldiers in battle array: auxilia regis nullo ordine iter fecerant, Caes. B. C. 2, 26: ne quisquam ordine egrederetur, Sall. J. 45, 2: nullo ordine commutato, id. ib. 101, 2: sine signis, sine ordinibus, id. ib. 97, 5; so, signa atque ordines observare, to keep the ranks, remain in line, id. ib. 51, 1: conturbare, id. ib. 50, 4: restituere, id. ib. 51, 3; Liv. 2, 50; 8, 8.—

2. A band, troop, company of soldiers: viri fortissimi atque honestissimi, qui ordines duxerunt, who have led companies, have been officers, Cic. Phil. 1, 8, 20: L. Pupius primipili centurio, qui hunc eundem ordinem in exercitu Pompeii antea duxerat, Caes. B. C. 1, 13. —Hence,

3. A captaincy, a command: ordinem alicui adimere, Tab. Heracl. ap. Mazoch. p. 423, n. 47; cf. on the contrary: alicui assignare, Liv. 42, 34: DARE, Inscr. Orell. 3456: centuriones ad superiores ordines transducere, Caes. B. G. 6, 40; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 4.—

(b). Ordines, chieftains, captains: tribunis militum primisque ordinibus convocatis, the captains of the first companies, Caes. B. G. 6, 7 fin.; Liv. 30, 4, 1.—

C. In a polit. respect, an order, i. e. a rank, class, degree of citizens: et meus med ordo inrideat, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 55.—In the time of Cicero there were three principal classes, ordo senatorius, equester, and plebeius: Fidiculanius cujus erat ordinis? senatoril, Cic. Clu. 37, 104; id. Fl. 18, 43: proximus est huic dignitati equester ordo, Cic. Dom. 28, 74; Suet. Aug. 41: inferiores loco, auctoritate, ordine, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 48, 127: ordo amplissimus, i. e. the Senate: quem absentem in amplissimum ordinem cooptarunt, id. Cael. 2, 5; also termed SPLENDIDISSIMVS ORDO, Inscr. Orell. 1180; 1181; and simply ordo, the order, for the Senate: ordo Mutinensis, Tac. H. 2, 52; Inscr. Grut. 425, 1: trecentos ex dediticiis electos utriusque ordinis, i. e. of the two upper classes, Suet. Aug. 15.—

2. In gen., a class, rank, station, condition: mearum me rerum aequom'st novisse ordinem, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 50: publicanorum, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2: aratorum, pecuariorum, mercatorum, id. Verr. 2, 2, 6, 17: homo ornatissimus loco, ordine, nomine, id. ib. 2, 1, 48, 127: libertini, Suet. Gram. 18.—So in the inscrr.: SACERDOTVM, HARVSPICVM, etc., Grut. 320, 12; 304, 7; 302, 2 et saep.; so, grammatici alios auctores in ordinem redigerunt, alios omnino exemerant numero, recognized among, placed in the rank of, Quint. 1, 4, 3.—

(b). Esp. (eccl. Lat.), an order in the church, an ecclesiastical rank or office: ordines sacerdotum et Levitarum, Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 30: secundum ordinem Melchisedek, id. Psa. 109, 5.