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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ordered
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be just what the doctor ordered
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a well-ordered society
▪ an ordered universe
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was lucky to have led such an ordered life.
▪ Suppose the pieces of the jigsaw start off in a box in the ordered arrangement in which they form a picture.
▪ The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state.
▪ The worshippers headed off in their own directions, and the ordered chequerboard shattered.
▪ This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ordered

ordered \ordered\ adj.

  1. having or evincing a systematic arrangement; especially, having elements succeeding in order according to rule; as, an ordered sequence; an ordered pair. Opposite of disordered or unordered. [Narrower terms: abecedarian, alphabetical; consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive ]

  2. arranged in order.

    Syn: orderly, regulated.

  3. in good order.

    Syn: so(predicate).

  4. disposed or placed in a particular kind of order. OPposite of {disarranged.

    Syn: arranged.

  5. arranged according to a quantitative criterion.

    Syn: graded, ranked.

  6. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts.

    Syn: consistent, logical, orderly.

Wiktionary
ordered
  1. In order, not messy, tidy. v

  2. (en-past of: order)

WordNet
ordered
  1. adj. having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule; "an ordered sequence" [ant: disordered]

  2. marked by system or regularity or discipline; "a quiet ordered house"; "an orderly universe"; "a well regulated life" [syn: orderly, regulated]

  3. disposed or placed in a particular kind of order; "the carefully arranged chessmen"; "haphazardly arranged interlobular septa"; "comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace" [syn: arranged] [ant: disarranged]

  4. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a logical argument"; "the orderly presentation" [syn: consistent, logical, orderly]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "ordered".

She hurried through her ablutions and ordered a sustabar for breakfast.

Once inside the ablutions one of the interrogators pulled his underpants down around his ankles and ordered him to step out of them and bend over.

He publicly chastised the cardinals for absenteeism, luxury, and lascivious life, forbade them to hold or sell plural benefices, prohibited their acceptance of pensions, gifts of money, and other favors from secular sources, ordered the papal treasurer not to pay them their customary half of the revenue from benefices but to use it for the restoration of churches in Rome.

After breakfast I sent for mine host and ordered an excellent supper for five persons, feeling certain that Don Sancio, whom I expected in the evening, would not refuse to honour me by accepting my invitation, and with that idea I made up my mind to go without my dinner.

The only hitch was, that this cabby might have been ordered to pick up as a passenger a man who came from the Acme Florists, wearing a red primrose.

This bill which had received the reluctant acquiescence of his majesty, was read a first time on the 5th of March, and was ordered to be read on the twelfth of the same month.

When the king heard what had happened he ordered the worthy actress to leave Madrid, to prevent the duke ruining himself.

These being considered, the house ordered the lords of the admiralty to produce the other memorials of the same kind which they had received, that they might be laid before the congress at Soissons: then they addressed his majesty for copies of all the letters and instructions which had been sent to admiral Hosier, and those who succeeded him in the command of the West-India squadron.

Daklar Bolbay lodged her complaint against you, an adjudicator ordered you placed under judicial scrutiny.

Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.

Finding himself grievously wounded, and the blood flowing apace, he, with such presence of mind as cannot be sufficiently admired, instead of proceeding to the palace, which was at some distance, ordered the coachman to return to Junqueria, where his principal surgeon resided, and there his wounds were immediately dressed.

Clodius Afer gruffly ordered the accompanying legionaries, but he himself angled toward the fountain.

Murphy ordered the engineer from aft, and in a few moments Jackson Vaughn appeared, hair soaked with sweat, coveralls stained with dirt, a Beretta 9-mm automatic stuffed into his belt.

Covu ordered all Necromongers except Oltovm to turn their backs as approach was made, and that forever established how a Necromonger vessel nears the open Threshold: aftward first.

But old Selim Aga and the other sages led the muezzin into the coffeehouse and ordered coffee, Turkish Delight and a narghile, to calm him down.