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A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
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A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.
adjective
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Neat and tidy; possessing order.
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He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.
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Methodical or systematic.
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We live in an orderly universe, where rules govern both the movements of planets and the binding of molecules.
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Peaceful; well-behaved.
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An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.
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Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
adverb
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According to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved or orderly way.
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In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement.
Examples of orderly in a Sentence
Proper detective work calls for an orderly investigation.
In April, Rostov was on orderly duty.
Like she did in the orderly condo.
The orderly had gone in before him and began waking somebody.
The king, himself a man of orderly life, detested him as a gambler and a rake.
Borgia's elevation did not at the time excite much alarm, except in some of the cardinals who knew him, and at first his reign was marked by a strict administration of justice and an orderly method of government in satisfactory contrast with the anarchy of the previous pontificate, as well as by great outward splendour.
These forms never occur scattered haphazard over a region, but always in an orderly subordination depending on their mode of origin.
Owing to an accident that befell the single orderly despatched with orders for Vandamme, the III.
Waldenses merely set forward a new criterion of the orderly arrangement of the church, according to which each member was to sit in judgment on the works of the ministers, and consequently on the validity of their ministerial acts.
He could hear that Lavrushka--that sly, bold orderly of Denisov's--was talking, as well as the quartermaster.
Just then a commissariat soldier, a hospital orderly, came in from the next room, marching stiffly, and drew up in front of Rostov.
Petya, having left his people after their departure from Moscow, joined his regiment and was soon taken as orderly by a general commanding a large guerrilla detachment.
If the police investigated in an orderly way and took their time the victim would most likely be harmed or killed.
We're supposed to be tackling this business in an orderly fashion, remember?
It explained why he was so unsettled with this woman; she was intruding in his orderly place of refuge.
This church contained some well-executed native paintings of St George and the Dragon, The Last Supper, &c. Among the religious observances of the Christians of Gondar is that of bathing in large crowds in the Gaha on the Feast of the Baptist, and again, though in more orderly fashion, on Christmas day.
By common consent he was pre-eminently God-fearing, orderly and conscientious.
A nominated legislative council was created, a high court established and other steps taken for the orderly government of the country, which was officially styled the Orange River Sovereignty.
In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian.
Only someone's orderly passed through the gateway, splashing through the mud, and talked to the innkeeper.
In August there were strikes among the dock laborers of Genoa and the iron workers of Florence; the latter agitation developed into a general strike in that city, which aroused widespread indignation among the orderly part of the population and ended without any definite result.
Causality is one of the " categories " which out mind uses in building up orderly experience.
To send a message of such vital importance by a single orderly was a piece of bad staff work.
Even if there were orderly connexion of parts in the universe, this may have resulted quite naturally.
The medieval church set forth Christ as present in the orderly community of the faithful; Protestantism aimed at setting the individual in immediate communion with Christ, without the mechanical intervention of the officers of the community; the 1 D'Argentre, Collectio judiciorum de novis erroribus, i.
At last Bagration's orderly came with the news that the prince could not attend.
The world is represented as an orderly structure of various heavens and various earths, which is borne and supported by the aeons, the angels of light.
The necessity for defence from hostile attacks, economy of space and convenience of access from one part of the community to another, by degrees dictated a more compact and orderly arrangement of the buildings of a monastic coenobium.
He went to China as orderly officer to General Gaselee in 1901, and provided the expedition with a hospital ship at his own expense, while his Imperial Service Transport Corps proved a useful auxiliary to the British army in the Chitral and Tirah expeditions.
So long as we confine our attention to one or two individuals, we fail to detect any order in the occurrence of variations; but when we examine large numbers we find that it is possible to arrange them in an orderly series, which can be easily and simply described.
The conception of a race of animals or of plants as a group of individuals capable of being arranged in an orderly series with respect to the condition of a particular character enables us to define the "type" of that character proper to the race.
Looking, then, at the portions which we have indicated as having this two-fold testimony, we see that in their fragmentary condition we cannot trace the clear historical development which was so conspicuous a feature of St Mark's Gospel; yet we need not conclude that in its complete form it failed to present an orderly narrative.
Many of these stars seem to vary quite irregularly; the changes of magnitude do not recur in any orderly way.
We recognize his being in the being of all things, his wisdom in their orderly arrangement, his life in their constant motion.
The native population is on the whole orderly and prosperous.
This Intelligence alone would have produced the orderly arrangement which we observe in Nature, and is the basis of human thought by the physical process of inhalation.
As the earlier one set forth in orderly sequence (Ka0eVjs) the providential stages by which Jesus was led, " in the power of the Spirit," to begin the establishment of the consummated Kingdom of God, so the later work aims at setting forth on similar principles its extension by means of His chosen representatives or apostles.
His kingdom therefore lapsed to Rome, and Prasutagus, anxious that the transfer should be effected in an orderly way, divided his accumulated wealth between his two daughters and the emperor.
Feudalism, as the antithesis of this orderly treatment, had to be overthrown before national finance could become established.
Apart from the special problems that this system of borrowing raises, there is the general one of its aid in making national finance continuous and orderly.
From this time forward the church, while jealously asserting her spiritual independence, was on the side of the crown against the Jacobites, and became more and more an orderly and useful ally of the state.
O'Higgins as directorgeneral, rightly perhaps, considered that firm orderly government was more important than the concession of liberal institutions, but his administration roused strong hostility, and in 1823 he was compelled to resign.
These officers are responsible to the governor for the collection of the taxes and the orderly state of their towns, parishes and villages.
Among the nomads a different system of titles prevails, the chiefs who are responsible for the taxes and the orderly conduct of their tribes and clans being known as ilklzani, ilbegi (both meaning tribe-lord, but the latter being considered an inferior title to the former), khan, rais, amir, mir, shaikh, tushmal, &c.
Thus it is all the more worthy of recognition that the Sassanian Empire was a fairly orderly empire, with an excellent legal administration, and that the later sovereigns did their utmost to repress the encroachments of the nobility, to protect the commonalty, and, above all, to carry out a just system of taxation.
From the elements the one substance is transformed into the multitude of individual things in the orderly universe, which again is itself a living thing or being, and the Pneuma pervading it, and conditioning life and growth everywhere, is its soul.
Both the queen and the king consort were strangers to Portugal, and could exercise little control over the turbulent factions whose intrigues and pronunciamentos made orderly government impossible.
The better types are hardy, orderly and agriculturally industrious.
New Orleans was unusually healthy and orderly during the Butler regime.
The doctrine which in others seemed to produce all sorts of extravagances - communistic experiments at Brook Farm and Fruitlands, weird schemes of political reform, long hair on men and short hair on women - in his sane, wellbalanced nature served only to lend an ideal charm to the familiar outline of a plain, orderly New England life.