单词 | inordinate |
释义 | inordinateadj. 1. Not ‘ordered’; devoid of order or regularity; deviating from right or rule; irregular, disorderly; not regulated, controlled, or restrained. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] wildc1000 unthewedc1175 wanton?a1300 rabbisha1387 irregular1395 inordinate1398 unruly1400 misgoverned?a1425 misruled?a1425 misruly?a1425 unruleful1439 seditious1447 rulelessc1460 turbulous1527 undaunted1533 turbulent1538 unordinate1561 rowsey1565 misorderlya1568 disruly1570 rabbling1575 disorderous1579 irregulate1579 disorderly1585 break-dance1587 willyart?1590 unguided1600 inorderly1606 anarchial1609 irregulousa1616 unmasterlya1623 uncomposed1631 obstreperous1641 disriegled1657 ranting1658 rantipole1660 reuling1691 shandy1691 rumblegarie1722 randy1723 obstropolous1727 wanruly1773 polrumptious1787 ree-raw1800 rambunctious1830 roid1874 unordered1929 rogue1948 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from natural or moral order disordeine1340 disordinatec1386 inordinate1398 disordaineda1425 disordered1548 deordinate1624 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum iii. xxv. (Add. MS. 27,944) Anon þe puls is swift and þicke quakinge and inordinat. 1485 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 7 Statutes..for the Punition of unlawful and inordinate Huntings in Forests. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 414 That the cryme which is inordinate may be reduced to the order of Justice. a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dd4/1 When did ye there keep such inordinate hours? 1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) i. 3 A rude and inordinate heap. 1774 Strange in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 43 From the inordinate course of the Appenines in general, the vulcanic hills of that chain afford no observation so interesting to physical geography. 1898 J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence iv. §4. 94 To remedy this lawlessness, to restore this inordinate state of humanity to order. 2. Not kept within orderly limits, immoderate, intemperate, excessive. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > unwarranted or unjustifiable > inordinate inordinatec1386 unduea1684 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋340 The clothyng..is cowpable..for the superfluitee, or for the inordinat scantnesse of it. c1425 Orolog. Sapient. ii, in Anglia X. 342/2 Ouerleyde with a inordinate sorowe and vnskilfulle heuynesse. ?c1530 Proverbys Howsolde-kepyng in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1866) 31 Inordynat bilding causith hasty sale of placys. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors ii. sig. A6v The inordinate inhansyng of rentys. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) i. 8 Drunkenness with Wine, or inordinate drinking, is altogether inconsistent with a being filled with the Spirit. 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 30. ⁋5 He only taxes us with our inordinate Love of Pudding. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 31 Their object is to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity. 1840 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 108 Making us pay an inordinate rent for the luxury. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 284 The prices..were so inordinate. 3. Of persons: Not conforming or subject to law or order, disorderly; unrestrained in passions, feelings, or conduct; immoderate, intemperate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] > specifically of persons unsufferablea1387 unmeasurablec1405 immoderatec1450 inordinatec1450 dissolutec1475 excessive1586 extravagant1600 painful1749 unforbearing1820 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xiii. 81 O hou shorte, hou inordinat, hou false, hou foule þei all be! a1555 J. Philpot Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) III. 2012/2 The Anabaptistes, an inordinate kynd of men stirred vp by the deuill to the destruction of the Gospell. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 26v Sanctuary men which were comonly inordinate men & malefactors. a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1693) I. 10 Yet were there even then amongst them, as the writings of the Apostles testifie, false Brethren, and inordinate walkers. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 341 Inordinate admirers of antiquity. 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 125 No more foolish dread O' the neighbour waxing too inordinate A rival. a. inordinate proportion, a ‘proportion’ or statement of equality of ratios in which the terms are not in regular order. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [noun] > equal or constant > terms in regular or irregular order inordinate proportion1570 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 135v An inordinate proportionality is, when as the antecedent is to the consequent, so is the antecedent to the consequent: and as the consequent is to an other, so is an other to the antecedent. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Inordinate proportion, that in which the order of the terms compared is irregular or disturbed. b. Geometry. Of a figure: Irregular; not equilateral and equiangular. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > irregular in shape uneven1398 bastard1418 raggedc1450 odd1508 unruled1551 irregular1584 inordinate1667 rambling1676 odd-shaped1704 bizarre1824 scrawled1895 raggedy1896 scrawly1901 free-form1942 1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xx. 151 The Spirits of Men..are as Isosceles betwixt the Isopleuron and Scalenum, not so ordinate a Figure as the one, nor so inordinate as the other. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 97 There are only three rectilineous and ordinate figures [triangles, squares, hexagons] which can serve to this purpose; and inordinate or unlike ones must have been not only less elegant and beautiful but unequal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2020). † inordinatev. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To render inordinate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [verb (transitive)] > (of love) render inordinate inordinate1646 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert from natural or moral order disorder1576 inordinate1646 intemperate1654 deordinate1688 1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 51 To deprave the will, to inordinate the affections, to perturb the passions. 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