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  • noun Obsolete form of order.
  • verb Obsolete form of order.

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Examples

  • Hardwicke the order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus for what were described by General de Launay, his foreign secretary, as 'les importans services que vous avez rendus à Son Gouvernement pendant les graves évènemens qui ont affligé la ville de Gênes et l'empressement efficace avec lequel vous avez puissamment secondé M. le Général de La Marmora pour y ramener l'ordre'; Lord Normanby, the British Ambassador at Paris, reported to his government that the French Minister at Turin had more than once expressed his conviction 'that during the late troubles at

    Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury

  • 'mot d'ordre' was that the pursuit arrested the attention as the most essential, and the happiness was postponed, almost invariably, to some future season, when leisure or plethora, that is, relaxation or gorged desire, should induce that physical and moral glow which is commonly accepted as happiness.

    Nine Short Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • 'mot d'ordre' was that the pursuit arrested the attention as the most essential, and the happiness was postponed, almost invariably, to some future season, when leisure or plethora, that is, relaxation or gorged desire, should induce that physical and moral glow which is commonly accepted as happiness.

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • 'mot d'ordre' was that the pursuit arrested the attention as the most essential, and the happiness was postponed, almost invariably, to some future season, when leisure or plethora, that is, relaxation or gorged desire, should induce that physical and moral glow which is commonly accepted as happiness.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Au Gabon, la Couronne est héréditaire, de mâle en mâle par ordre de primogéniture élue démocratiquement par succession directe au suffrage universel sous protection militaire.

    Global Voices in English » Gabon: Opposition Continues to Fight Election Result 2009

  • UE et NWO (nouvel ordre mondial) la politique est de détruire notre blanc les sociétés occidentales:

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Regulation Gone Mad 2009

  • Français · Kazakhstan: Bloguer sur ordre? rOOse, a blogger on the YVision. kz blog platform in Kazakhstan, has posted [ru] a letter from the government to the principals of schools and colleges across the country containing recommendations to upload videos to the KazTube.

    Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: State-ordered blogging 2009

  • Són sens dubte continguts perdurables … I respecte al Top 10 del 2008, trobem els 3 mateixos articles en les tres primeres posicions (Palafolls, Sant Antoni-Joan Oliver, i Santiago), però amb diferent ordre.

    Els articles més visitats del 2009 | [bauen] 2010

  • As she was "by just ordre of the Lawes justlie possessed" of the property, she refused to relinquish her legal rights to the pasture.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • Due to her "great nede of pastures for my provicions, the lack wherof hath bene to my great chardges," Elizabeth had contracted with a certain "Smyth" to purchase his pastures near Woburn in Buckinghamshire. 70 As far as she was concerned she now "by just ordre of the Lawes justlie possessed" the said pastures.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

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