† disˈordinance Obs.
Forms: 4–5 dis-, dys-, -orden-, -ordin-, -ordyn-aunce, 5–6 -ordonaunce.
[a. OF. desordenance, later -on(n)ance, f. desordener (now -ordonner) to disordain: see -ance.]
Disorder, confusion, irregularity.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. i. 150 What place myȝt[e] ben left..to folie and to disordinaunce syn þat god lediþ..alle þinges by ordre? 1481 Caxton Tully's Friendship, Orat. G. Flaminius E iv, They have sette it in grete trouble and disordinaunce. 1489 ― Faytes of A. i. xvi. 48 Noo thyng is mor preiudicyable in a bataille than dysordonaunce. 1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. xiii. 205 Yf he haue not other disordonaunce. |