Bible Dictionaries
Order

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

(Latin: ordo, array, row)

• a class or group of persons of the same condition, occupation, profession
• a state, such as the natural or supernatural
• a body of men or women abiding by common religious, moral, or social regulations
• a form of service, such as the order, or ordinary, of the Mass
• a grade or rank in the ministry, one of the holy orders
• one of the nine choirs of angels
• a fraternity or society of knights
• the badges or decorations of the various knighthoods