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disˈordered, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ed1.] 1. Put out of order, thrown into confusion; disarranged, confused, irregular.
1571Digges Pantom. iii. xiv. S ij b, To measure exactly the solide content of any small body, how disordred or irregular so euer it be. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 39 Baldwin..seeking to restore his disordered companies, and to stay the furie of the enemie. 1635Earl of Strafford Lett. & Disp. (1739) I. 394 Pardon my disordered Writing. 1805Southey Madoc in Azt. xix, They..with disorder'd speed..Ran to the city gates. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. xxix. 79 Thrasybulus suddenly turned upon the enemy..and..attacked their victorious but disordered centre. †b. Not according to order or rule, irregular.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 25 b, After once that such disordered counterfaiting of God well liked them, they neuer ended, till..they imagined y⊇ God did shew forth his power in images. 1592–3Act 35 Eliz. c. i. §5 Frequenting disordered and unlawful Conventicles and Assemblies. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. 171 There were fifty of those Popes irregular, disordered and Apostaticall. †2. Morally irregular, vitiated, corrupt; disorderly, unruly, riotous; = disordinate 1. Obs.
1548Hall Chron., Rich. III (an. 3) 44 b, The disordered affection whiche this kynde kynseman shewed to his blood. 1579in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 407 A nomber of disordered persons of the Universitie. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 381 Our own rebellious and disordered desires. 1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 263 Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold. 1630Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) II. 63 His wife hath..been committed to the same prison for her disordered tongue. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 696 Warr..hath..to disorder'd rage let loose the reines. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 84 The People very much disorder'd in Liquor, and very quarrelsome. †3. Discomposed, agitated. Obs.
1711Addison Spect. No. 42 ⁋1 It is..a very odd Spectacle, to see a Queen venting her passion in a disordered Motion. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. III. 18 She found him pacing the room, with a disordered air. 4. Affected with bodily or mental disorder; out of health; deranged; morbid.
a1731Atterbury Job xxii. 21 (Seager) Notwithstanding that we feel our souls disordered and restless..yet we are strangely backward to lay hold of this method of cure. 1777Priestley Matt. & Spir. (1782) I. xviii. 212 A disordered mind [is] in many cases, the evident effect of a disordered body. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. §82 In some cases of disordered nerves, we have sensations without objects. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. iii. 92 Mental derangement is in numerous instances preceded by a disordered state of the general health. Hence disˈorderedly adv.; disˈorderedness.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xi. 8 Lest the disorderednesse of al things may empair his faith. 1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 35 The Nicolaits which liue disorderedly haue for their founder, Nicolas one of the seuen..deacons. a1610Knolles (J.), By that disorderedness of the soldiers a great advantage was offered unto the enemy. 1611Cotgr., Escorcher les anguilles par la queuë, to doe things disorderedly, awkwardly, the wrong way. |