deordination Now rare or Obs.
(diːɔːdɪˈneɪʃən)
[ad. med.L. deordinātiōn-em (Du Cange), n. of action f. verbal type *deordināre (It. disordinare, OF. desordener) to disorder, f. de- I. 6 + ordināre to order, ordin-em order. A doublet of disordination.]
1. Departure from or violation of order, esp. of moral order; disorder.
| 1596 Bell Surv. Popery iii. ix. 378 The guilte and the deordination. 1635 Sibbes Soules Confl. xii. §3. 166 This sheweth us what a wonderfull deordination and disorder is brought upon mans nature. 1647 Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery i. (1686) 99 She refuses to run into the same excess of riot and de-ordination. 1688 Norris Theory Love ii. ii. 101 A deordination from the end of Nature. 1891 Manning in Dublin Rev. July 157 It denotes an abuse, an excess, a de-ordination in human society. |
2. Departure from ordinary or normal condition, as in physical deformity, decomposition, etc.
| 1686 Goad Celest. Bodies iii. iii. 472 A Token of the Dissolution, and as it were the Deordination of the Compound. Ibid. iii. iv. 505 Under these years, the same Deordination is found in Animals, Lambs, Hares, Calves. |