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discomposed, ppl. a. (dɪskəmˈpəʊzd, poet. -zɪd) [f. prec. + -ed1.] Disordered, disturbed, agitated, disquieted: see the verb.
1625–8tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iv. (1688) 615 His unsettled and discomposed Countenance. 1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 121 It is an absolute folly of a discomposed iudgement. 1670Dryden 1st Pt. Conq. Granada ii. i, I met Almanzor coming back from Court, But with a discompos'd and speedy Pace. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxv, With a discomposed aspect and faltering voice. Hence discomˈposedly adv.; discomˈposedness, disturbedness, disquietude.
1627Donne Serm. xxii. 218 Thir inordinatenesse thir discomposednesse and fluctuation of passion. 1655–62W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. (1669) 356/2 David behaved himself discomposedly. 1677Hale Contempl. II. Afflictions (R.), Sickness..is a time of distemper and discomposedness. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. II. 33 She rose discomposedly. |