| ordain | (verb) issue an order | - |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, order, ordinate |
| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: enact |
| (verb) invest with ministerial or priestly authority | - |
| ordained | (adjective) invested with ministerial or priestly functions | - |
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| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, prescribed |
| ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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| ordeal | (noun) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence | Synonyms: trial by ordeal |
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| (noun) a severe or trying experience | - |
| order | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: ordering |
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| (noun) (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans | - |
| (noun) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
| (noun) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities | Synonyms: purchase order |
| (noun) a body of rules followed by an assembly | Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order |
| (noun) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed | - |
| (noun) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served | - |
| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: ordering, ordination |
| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society |
| (noun) a group of person living under a religious rule | Synonyms: monastic order |
| (noun) established customary state (especially of society) | - |
| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: orderliness |
| (verb) bring order to or into | - |
| (verb) place in a certain order | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, put, set up |
| (verb) make a request for something | - |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, prescribe |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate |
| ordered | (adjective) having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule | - |
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| (adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order | Synonyms: arranged |
| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, consistent, logical |
| orderer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| (noun) someone who places an order to buy | - |
| ordering | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: order |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordination |
| orderliness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: methodicalness |
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| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: order |
| orderly | (adjective) devoid of violence or disruption | - |
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| (adjective) clean or organized | Synonyms: neat |
| (noun) a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients | Synonyms: hospital attendant |
| (noun) a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer | - |
| ordinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical order in a series | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a taxonomic order | - |
| (noun) the number designating place in an ordered sequence | Synonyms: no., ordinal number |
| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordinand | (noun) a person being ordained | - |
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| ordinarily | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: commonly, normally, unremarkably, usually |
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| ordinariness | (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| ordination | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordinance |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordering |
| (noun) the status of being ordained to a sacred office | - |
| ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
| ordure | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, stool |
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