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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 but resting on the ground; also, the posi…

organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. Ray.

Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidæ. The larvæ of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.

bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues, and can be remedied by manipulations of these parts.

speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume. Milton. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things Luke xxiv. 26.

en are strangely out in the calculating of their own interest. South. Very seldom out, in these his guesses. Addison.

we or great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.

rruled the point of order. His passion and animosity overruled his conscience. Clarendon. These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled. F. W. Newman.

and aniline; -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.

ers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

r portions; -- often with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general." Shak. These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden. The broad woodland parceled into farms. Tennyson.

f participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself! Atterbury.

To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. Shak.

inal question was then put upon its passage. Cushing. In passage, in passing; cursorily. "These . . . have been studied but in passage." Bacon. -- Middle passage, Northeast passage, Northwest passage. See under Middle, Northeast, etc. -- Of passage, passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; -…

Origin; authorship. The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. Sir W. Scott.

Trifling; trickery. [Obs.] "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.

One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.

To have relation or reference to something. These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time. Latimer.

vapor, the system is invariant, that is, there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in equilibrium. If only three phases be considered, the system is univariant, that is, the fixing of one condition, as temperature, determines the others.

of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.