#57. Extraneousness.
— N. extraneousness &c. adj.; extrinsicality
&c.
6[obs3]; exteriority &c. 220[obs3]; alienage[obs3],
alienism; foreign body, foreign substance, foreign
element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner,
novus homo[Lat], newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole,
Africander[obs3]; outsider; Dago*, wop, mick, polak,
greaser, slant, Easterner [U.S.], Dutchman, tenderfoot.
Adj. extraneous, foreign,
alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane.
excluded &c. 55; inadmissible;
exceptional.
Adv. in foreign parts,
in foreign lands; abroad, beyond seas; over sea
on one’s travels.
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Section
iv. Order
1. Order %
#58. Order. —
N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus
ordo[Lat]; music of the spheres.
gradation, progression;
series &c. (continuity) 69.
subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method,
disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy,
discipline orderliness &c. adj.
rank, place &c. (term)
71.
V. be in order, become
in order &c. adj.; form, fall in, draw up;
arrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into
one’s place, take one’s place, take one’s
rank; rally round.
adjust, methodize, regulate,
systematize.
Adj. orderly, regular;
in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in
its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle[Fr], well regulated,
correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape,
businesslike, systematic; unconfused &c. (see confuse
&c. 61); arranged &c. 60.
Adv. in order; methodically
&c. adj.; in -turn, — its turn; step by
step; by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -intervals;
seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim[Lat];
at stated periods &c. (periodically) 138.
Phr. natura non facit
saltum[Lat]; “order is heaven’s first law”
[Pope]; “order from disorder sprung” [Paradise
Lost]; ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca
tribuens dispositio [Lat][St. Augustine].
<— here we should break up 59 into disorder
(randomness), and complexity. These are two different
concepts. Note that simplicity, (entry 849) refers
to affections or appearance, not internal complexity.
We also need a corresponding
entry for conceptual or organizational
simplicity. —>
#59. [Absence, or want
of Order, &c.] Disorder. — N. disorder;
derangement &c. 61; irregularity; anomaly &c. (unconformity)
83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness
&c. adj.; disunion; discord &c. 24. confusion; confusedness
&c. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle,
litter, lumber; cahotage[obs3]; farrago; mess, mash,
muddle, muss [U. S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch[obs3],
hotch-pot[obs3]; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum[Lat],
medley; mere mixture &c. 41; fortuitous concourse of
atoms, disjecta membra[Lat], rudis indigestaque moles