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minor order
noun
- the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of minor order1
Example Sentences
When biologists talk about whip spiders, they invariably categorize them as a minor order of arachnids — meaning a branch that encompasses fewer species than spiders or scorpions.
But minor order also has a whiff of neglect.
“Now we have women installed to what was a minor order,†she said.
There is also available some information in Xenophon's Essay upon the Revenues, Aristotle's Constitution of Athens, Lycurgus' prosecution of Diphilos, the Tablets of the Poletae, and many incidental references and inscriptions of minor order.
To speak summarily, for a strong centralisation there must be, besides one nucleus, or nucleus of the first order, a certain number of nuclei of the second or minor order, and sometimes there must be nuclei of the third and lower orders.
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