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TO ORDER
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To specification
Example:
he had the shoes made to order
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Context examples:
Miss Tilney, understanding in part her friend's curiosity to see the house, soon revived the subject; and her father being, contrary to Catherine's expectations, unprovided with any pretence for further delay, beyond that of stopping five minutes to order refreshments to be in the room by their return, was at last ready to escort them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Oh, Madam Mina, he said, sadly, it is proof, if proof be needed, of how I love and honour you, when a word for your good, spoken more earnest than ever, can seem so strange because it is to order her whom I am proud to obey!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
How many children Sophy could have taken care of in her time, I can't imagine; but she seemed to be famous for knowing every sort of song that ever was addressed to a child in the English tongue; and she sang dozens to order with the clearest little voice in the world, one after another (every sister issuing directions for a different tune, and the Beauty generally striking in last), so that I was quite fascinated.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She turned as I drew near, and looked at me haughtily: her eyes seemed to demand, What can the creeping creature want now? and when I said, in a low voice, Mr. Rochester, she made a movement as if tempted to order me away.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The Admiral, after taking two or three refreshing turns about the room with his hands behind him, being called to order by his wife, now came up to Captain Wentworth, and without any observation of what he might be interrupting, thinking only of his own thoughts, began with—If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage to Lady Mary Grierson and her daughters.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
To go instantly to Geneva: come with me, Henry, to order the horses.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Hermann von Schmidt chuckled in his little repair shop and decided to order a new lathe.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The manufacture was much improved since that time; he had seen some beautiful specimens when last in town, and had he not been perfectly without vanity of that kind, might have been tempted to order a new set.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Meg was too much absorbed in her private and particular John to care for any other lords of creation, and Beth too shy to do more than peep at them and wonder how Amy dared to order them about so, but Jo felt quite in her own element, and found it very difficult to refrain from imitating the gentlemanly attitudes, phrases, and feats, which seemed more natural to her than the decorums prescribed for young ladies.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt, and were both protesting that they knew many women who answered this description, when Mr. Hurst called them to order, with bitter complaints of their inattention to what was going forward.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
