† irregulateadj.n.
Obsolete. rare.† B. n.
A. adj.
Unregulated; irregular, disorderly.
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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 > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour
irregular1395
unformalc1449
informalc1475
disordered1561
monstrous1568
odd1577
irregulate1579
exorbitant1613
free-spirited1613
exorbitating1632
inconformable1633
extravagant1650
inconform1659
eccentric1685
unconformable1702
outrageous1778
unconventional1840
erratic1841
kinky1844
Bohemian1846
radical1869
Bohemic1874
nonconforming1899
hard case1904
jazz1917
offbeat1922
deviant1935
deviate1945
oddball1945
left field1951
way out1955
boho1958
non-conformant1960
sideways1969
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin vii. 366 So irregulate is a communaltie or multitude once drawen into mutinie.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 129 I imagine thou art an irregulate Priest.
1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 160 Though this irregulate love be both his fault and his punishment.
An irregular person: see irregular adj. 5. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun] > candidate for > person disqualified from
irregulate1602
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 115 [The] enabling of such irregulates and defectiues to aduancement in the Church and common wealth.
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† irregulatev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To render irregular; to disorder.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > render irregular [verb (transitive)]
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1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 81 All these things..irregulate the partie that hath them, and makes him incapable of priesthood.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xlviii. sig. I1 It do's only distract and irregulate him & the world by him.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xvii. 377 Its fluctuations are but motions subservient, which winds, stormes, shoares, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates . View more context for this quotation
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