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[ noun ] logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

Synonyms

order ordination

Examples

"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"

Used in print

(Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)

The order is identical to the ordering of the forms they describe .

This leaves the ordering of entries variable .

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

First was the period of codification of existing law : the Code_Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that , in_fact , resulted from Austin 's restatement and ordering of the Common_Law in England .

It was merely a rationalization and ordering of new institutions of popular government .

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[ noun ] putting in order

Synonyms

order

Examples

"there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

Moreover , it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato 's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods , wives , and children , was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; and it is to this problem that the Republic ultimately returns .

The concern of Utopia is with the optimo reipublicae statu , the best ordering of a civil society ; and it is again_and_again made clear that Utopian communism provides the institutional array indispensable to that best ordering .

The concern of Utopia is with the optimo reipublicae statu , the best ordering of a civil society ; and it is again_and_again made clear that Utopian communism provides the institutional array indispensable to that best ordering .

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