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ataxy|əˈtæksɪ, ˈætæksɪ| Also 7 ataxie; in sense 2 often as L. ataxia. [ad. Gr. ἀταξία, f. ἀ priv. + τάξις arrangement, order, f. τάσσ-ειν to arrange.] †1. Want of order or discipline; irregularity, confusion, disorderliness. Obs. in gen. sense.
1615Byfield On Coloss. ii. 10 (1869) 205/2 There is [no] ataxy among those glorious creatures [i.e. angels]. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 207 A mere ataxy, or confused chaos. a1733North Exam. iii. viii. ⁋70 If it had been slipt over, he must have blamed his own Ataxy in the Disposition. 2. Path. Irregularity of the animal functions, or of the symptoms of disease. locomotor ataxy: inability to co-ordinate the voluntary movements, constitutional unsteadiness in the use of legs, arms, etc.
1670Maynwaringe Vita Sana i. 13 There ariseth Distempers, Ataxies and discord. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 305 A Woman very subject to vapours and ataxies of the animal spirits. 1855H. Spencer Psychol. (1872) I. i. ii. 5 An early stage of ataxy. 1878A. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 208 Locomotor ataxia..often occurs among sea-faring men who have fallen overboard. |