A LARGE ORDER, subs. phr. (common).—Something excessive.
1890. Pall Mall Gazette, 17 Feb., 7, 1. A LARGE ORDER [Title].
1891. Tit-Bits, 8 Aug., 274, 1. In asking me to tell you about my clients and their wills, you give a pretty LARGE ORDER.
1892. Illustrated Bits, 22 Oct, 10. Well, sir, that’s a LARGISH ORDER.
TO ORDER ONE’S NAME, verb. phr. (Winchester School: obsolete).—See quots.
1866. MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College, 223. ORDER YOUR NAME. An order given to a delinquent by the Head or Second Master, which was carried out by the boy requesting the Ostiarius to do so, the consequence of which was, that at the end of school that officer presented to the Master the victim’s name on a Roll who forthwith received a Scrubbing. When the words “to the Bible Clerk” were added, the business was confided to that officer, who, with the Ostiarius, officiated at the subsequent ceremony, which in this case was called a Bibler.
1878. H. C. ADAMS, Wykehamica, xxiii. 429. ORDER YOUR NAME, the direction given to an offender by any of the authorities. The boy so directed, if he was in College, or if the order was given in School, had to go to the Ostiarius—or to the Præfect in course, if the offence was committed in Commoners—and give information of the order, and the reason why it had been given. The Ostiarius, or the Præfect in course, wrote down the culprit’s name, together with that of the Master, and the offence, and carried it up to the Head or Second Master, when due execution was done.
