deranged, ppl. a.
(dɪˈreɪndʒd)
[f. derange v.]
1. Put out of order; disordered, disarranged.
| 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 246 Measures..to recover them [commercial affairs] from their deranged situation. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 84 A deranged state of the digestive organs. 1875 Lyell Princ. Geol. I. i. vii. 125 The deranged and the horizontal formations. |
2. Disordered in mind; insane.
| c 1790 Willock Voy. 319 When I came to mention..they imagined I was still deranged, as there was no such place, as I described. 1856 J. H. Newman Callista xii. 140 The few persons whom he met..thought him furious or deranged. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 465 A man who is deranged and not right in his mind. |