disˈordered, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
1. Put out of order, thrown into confusion; disarranged, confused, irregular.
| 1571 Digges Pantom. iii. xiv. S ij b, To measure exactly the solide content of any small body, how disordred or irregular so euer it be. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 39 Baldwin..seeking to restore his disordered companies, and to stay the furie of the enemie. 1635 Earl of Strafford Lett. & Disp. (1739) I. 394 Pardon my disordered Writing. 1805 Southey Madoc in Azt. xix, They..with disorder'd speed..Ran to the city gates. 1838 Thirlwall Greece IV. xxix. 79 Thrasybulus suddenly turned upon the enemy..and..attacked their victorious but disordered centre. |
† b. Not according to order or rule, irregular.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 25 b, After once that such disordered counterfaiting of God well liked them, they neuer ended, till..they imagined y⊇ God did shew forth his power in images. 1592–3 Act 35 Eliz. c. i. §5 Frequenting disordered and unlawful Conventicles and Assemblies. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. 171 There were fifty of those Popes irregular, disordered and Apostaticall. |
† 2. Morally irregular, vitiated, corrupt; disorderly, unruly, riotous; = disordinate 1. Obs.
| 1548 Hall Chron., Rich. III (an. 3) 44 b, The disordered affection whiche this kynde kynseman shewed to his blood. 1579 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 407 A nomber of disordered persons of the Universitie. 1585 Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 381 Our own rebellious and disordered desires. 1605 Shakes. Lear i. iv. 263 Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold. 1630 Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) II. 63 His wife hath..been committed to the same prison for her disordered tongue. 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 696 Warr..hath..to disorder'd rage let loose the reines. 1743 Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 84 The People very much disorder'd in Liquor, and very quarrelsome. |
† 3. Discomposed, agitated. Obs.
| 1711 Addison Spect. No. 42 ¶1 It is..a very odd Spectacle, to see a Queen venting her passion in a disordered Motion. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. III. 18 She found him pacing the room, with a disordered air. |
4. Affected with bodily or mental disorder; out of health; deranged; morbid.
| a 1731 Atterbury Job xxii. 21 (Seager) Notwithstanding that we feel our souls disordered and restless..yet we are strangely backward to lay hold of this method of cure. 1777 Priestley Matt. & Spir. (1782) I. xviii. 212 A disordered mind [is] in many cases, the evident effect of a disordered body. 1830 Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. §82 In some cases of disordered nerves, we have sensations without objects. 1856 Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. iii. 92 Mental derangement is in numerous instances preceded by a disordered state of the general health. |
Hence disˈorderedly adv.; disˈorderedness.
| 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xi. 8 Lest the disorderednesse of al things may empair his faith. 1574 tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 35 The Nicolaits which liue disorderedly haue for their founder, Nicolas one of the seuen..deacons. a 1610 Knolles (J.), By that disorderedness of the soldiers a great advantage was offered unto the enemy. 1611 Cotgr., Escorcher les anguilles par la queuë, to doe things disorderedly, awkwardly, the wrong way. |