单词 | malarrangement |
释义 | malarrangementn. Now rare. Faulty or imperfect arrangement; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > faulty or wrong arrangement misarrangement1769 malarrangement1779 anatopism1812 1779 A. McDougall Let. 19 Jan. in P. D. Chase & W. M. Ferraro Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Ser. (2009) XIX. 29 The Mal-Arrangments of your Navy. 1838 T. Carlyle Coll. Lett. (1985) X. 108 The malarrangement of our..threepenny post. 1853 F. W. Newman tr. Horace Odes Pref. 7 Nothing but the fact that Horace is chiefly read..for the mere language..can make the existing malarrangement endurable. 1865 Athenæum 16 Sept. 365/1 Here is another specimen of malarrangement [of facts]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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