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1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 88–90; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ.Le Lettere, 1994:
Questi è Rinier; questi è ’l pregio e l’onore de la casa da Calboli, ove nullo fatto s’è reda poi del suo valore.
This is Renier; this is the boast and honour/honor of the house of Calboli, where no one since has made himself the heir of his valor.
(nautical)roadstead(partly sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbor)
to tell what's going on, to give account of one's business (fairly uncommon)
göra sig reda för något
to learn what's going on (fairly uncommon)
Usage notes
Order of the kind likely to be maintained by someone who is neat and organized (where the antonym is mess rather than chaos). The more general word for order is ordning.