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derangement|dɪˈreɪndʒmənt|
[a. mod.F. dérangement (1671 in Hatzf.), f. déranger: see derange and -ment.]
1. Disturbance of order or arrangement; disarrangement, displacement.
1780T. Jefferson Corr. Wks. 1859 I. 276 A strange derangement, indeed, our riders have got into, to be nine days coming from Hillsborough. 1854Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India 417 They could not be incorporated in their proper places without a very extensive reprint and a derangement of the entire work. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. I. i. vii. 116 Time must multiply the derangement of strata, in the ratio of antiquity.
2. Disturbance of normal or regular order or working; the condition of being out of order; disorder; disorganization.
1737Berkeley Querist §457 Whether this folly may not produce..an entire derangement of domestic life..a general corruption in both sexes? 1766Chesterfield Lett. cccxcviii. (1792) IV. 231 It is a total dislocation and dérangement. 1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 502 Without any considerable derangement in the digestive organs. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 146 The derangement of the woollen trade..was causing distress all over the country.
3. Disturbance of the functions of the mind; mental disorder; insanity.
1800Act 39–40 Geo. III, c. 94 §3 (Jod.) Apprehended under circumstances, that denote a derangement of mind. 1812G. D. Collinson Law conc. Idiots I. i. iv. (Jod.), Many actions bear too marked a character of illusion, of derangement, of alienation of mind, that a man in his senses could not by any possibility commit them. 1825Southey Tale of Paraguay iv. 66 Mark of passion there was none; None of derangement. 1874H. Maudsley Respons. in Ment. Dis. vii. 233 Supplying the interpretation of the previously obscure attacks of recurrent derangement. |