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▪ I. † iˈrregulate, a. (n.) Obs. rare.
[ad. med.L. irrēgulāt-us, It. irregolato unregulated: see ir-2.]
Unregulated; irregular, disorderly.
1579Fenton Guicciard. vii. (1599) 280 So irregulate is a commonaltie or multitude once drawne into mutinie. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 129, I imagine thou art an irregulate Priest. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man become Guilty 160 Though this irregulate love be both his fault and his punishment.
†B. n. An irregular person: see irregular a. 5. Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 115 [The] enabling of such irregulates and defectiues to aduancement in the Church and common wealth.
▪ II. † iˈrregulate, v. Obs.
[f. prec., or f. ir-2 + regulate v., after irregular.]
trans. To render irregular; to disorder.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 81 All these things..irregulate the partie that hath them, and makes him incapable of priesthood. 1628Earle Microcosm., Scepticke (Arb.) 67 It do's only distract and irregulate him and the world by him. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xvii. 377 Its fluctuations are but motions subservient, which winds, stormes, shoares, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates. |