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Preachers, Order of

(Encyclopedia)Preachers, Order of: see Dominicans. ...

order

(Encyclopedia)order, in taxonomy: see classification. ...

rules of order

(Encyclopedia)rules of order: see parliamentary law. ...

Order of American Knights

(Encyclopedia)Order of American Knights: see Knights of the Golden Circle. ...

Robert's Rules of Order

(Encyclopedia)Robert's Rules of Order: see parliamentary law; Robert, Henry Martyn. ...

Doric order

(Encyclopedia)Doric order, earliest of the orders of architecture developed by the Greeks and the one that they employed for most buildings. It is generally believed that the column and its capital derive from an e...

composite order

(Encyclopedia)composite order: see Corinthian order. ...

Corinthian order

(Encyclopedia)Corinthian order, most ornate of the classic orders of architecture. It was also the latest, not arriving at full development until the middle of the 4th cent. b.c. The oldest known example, however, ...

Cluniac order

(Encyclopedia)Cluniac order klo͞oˈnē-ăkˌ [key], medieval organization of Benedictines centered at the abbey of Cluny, France. Founded in 910 by the monk Berno and Count William of Aquitaine, the abbey's consti...

executive order

(Encyclopedia)executive order, in the United States, official document initiated and signed by the president containing directives concerning how the executive branch shall carry out its responsibilities under the ...