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Orderly   /ˈɔrdərli/   Listen
adjective
Orderly  adj.  
1.
Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.
2.
Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.
3.
Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly... march."
4.
Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men."
Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded.
Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc.
Orderly room.
(a)
The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried.
(b)
The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate.
Orderly sergeant, the first sergeant of a company.



noun
Orderly  n.  (pl. orderlies)  
1.
(Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service. "Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace."
2.
A street sweeper. (Eng.)



adverb
Orderly  adv.  According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. "You are blunt; go to it orderly."






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"Orderly" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the country few great lords, but there was little poverty and no pauperism. In such a soil, the secret societies were almost certain to fail, and if it had not been for the diabolical experiments of Lord Kingsborough's North Cork Militia, it is very probable that that orderly and thrifty population would have seen the eventful year we are describing pass over their homes without experiencing any of the terrible trials which accompanied it. But it was impossible for human nature to endure ...
— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee

... Christmas in Spain. The Midnight Mass is there the great event of the festival. Something has already been said as to its celebration in Madrid. The scene at the midnight service in a small Andalusian country town is thus described by an English traveller:—"The church was full; the service orderly; the people of all classes. There were muleteers, wrapped in their blue and white checked rugs; here, Spanish gentlemen, enveloped in their graceful capas, or capes ... here, again, were crowds of the commonest people,—miners, fruitsellers, ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

... manhood, not blue blood, previous good character, wealth, nor the stamp of Harvard. A member held his place by virtue of courage, popularity, and ability. Arthur made no inquiries, but took everything as it came. All was novelty, all surprise, and to his decorous and orderly disposition, all ferment. The clan seemed to him to be rushing onward like a torrent night and day, from the dance to the ward-meeting, from business to church, interested and yet careless. The Senator informed him with pride that ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... only themselves to blame. Life may be a hard fight, but one always pulls through when one is orderly and economical—witness the Lorilleuxs, who paid their rent to the day, the money folded up in bits of dirty paper. But they, it is true, led a life of starved spiders, which would disgust one with hard work. Nana as yet earned nothing at flower-making; ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... or a reservoir of creative energy, as Tyndall and his school did, and as Professor Moore still does, we are paying homage to a power that is super-material. Life came to our earth, says Professor Moore, through a "well-regulated orderly development," and it "comes to every mother earth of the universe in the maturity of her creation when the conditions arrive within suitable limits." That no intelligent beings appeared upon the earth for millions upon millions ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs


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