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Roget category 58

1. Words expressing abstract relations
1.4. Order
›› 1.4.1. Order in general

#58. Order

noun

order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo [Lat.]music of the spheres.
gradation, progressionseries etc. (continuity) 69.
subordinationcourse, even tenor, routinemethod, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness etc. adj.. rank, place etc. (term) 71.

verb

be in order, become in order etc. adj. — form, fall in, draw uparrange itself, range itself, place itselffall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rankrally round.
adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.

adjective

orderly, regularin order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper placeneat, tidy, en regle [Fr.], well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematicunconfused etc. (confuse) etc. 61 arranged etc. 60.

adverb

in ordermethodically etc. adj. — in turn, in its turnby steps, step by stepby regular steps, by regular gradations, by regular stages, by regular intervalsseriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim [Lat.]at stated periods etc. (periodically) 138.

phrase

natura non facit saltum [Lat.]order is heaven's first law" [Pope]; order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca tribuens ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca tribuens dispositio [Lat.] [St. Augustine].

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