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Paley’s definition of orders in Paley (1845) p.10 is:
An arch of two or more orders is one which is recessed by so many recessive plains or retiring arches, each placed behind and beneath the next before it.
Ruskin here seems to be using the term in a sense closer to that of Paley to mean the capitals farther away from the viewer.
At Works, 9.379 Ruskin is using the word of capitals in a different sense when he argues that there are only two orders of capitals, the concave and the convex. See Works, 9.383 on that distinction in relation to S. Ambrogio, Milan, but compare Works, 9.141.
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