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▪ I. ordering, vbl. n.|ˈɔːdərɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. order: ordination, arrangement, regulation, direction, management, preparation, treatment, etc.
c1315Shoreham (E.E.T.S.) 56 Þe bisschopes blessynge, Forþ myd þe admynystracioun Þat he deþ atte ord[r]ynge. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. ci. 76, I passe ouer..the orderynge of the yongest sone called Clodoaldus. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. i. (1870) 123 There meate..is marde and spylt for lacke of good ordring & dressynge. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. (1634) 729 Laying on of hands, which I grant in true and lawfull Orderings to bee a Sacrament. 1667C. Merret in Phil. Trans. II. 455 The other two Trees, left without this ordering, had most of their fruit withered. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. §13 We want laws,..in one word, for the whole ordering of life. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxiii, Directions about the encampment..and such other instructions as might be necessary to the proper ordering of the field. 1895Besant In Deacon's Orders i. 2 This ordering, once accepted, is a life-sentence like a peerage.
▪ II. ˈordering, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That orders, arranges, directs, etc.: see order v.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §25. 26 An Ordering and Disposing Mind that was the Cause of all things. 1898G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 28 His ordering fingers point the dials to time their ranks. |