† diˈsordeine, diˈsordeny, a. (n.) Obs.
Forms; 4 des-, disordene, 4–5 des-, dis-, dys-, -ordeynee, -ordenee, -ordeine, -eyne, -eigne, 5 -ordeyne, -ordeny.
[a. OF. desordené (mod. désordonné), pa. pple. of desordener: see disordain and disordinate. The final é of OF. appears to have had a double fortune, becoming on the one side mute as in assign, avowe, on the other developing into -ee, -ie, -y as in assignee, city: cf. dishevel, dishevely.]
Inordinate, immoderate, excessive; disorderly, irregular. (Cf. disordinate 1.)
| 1340 Ayenb. 34 Auarice is disordene loue. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶841 Alle the desordeynee [v.rr. dysordenee, disordeynet, -deine, -deyne, desordeigne] moewynges that comen of flesshly talentes. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxxiii. (1869) 65 Whan þou seest þe wille encline to dede disordeynee. c 1450 [see B.]. c 1475 Partenay 2768 All disording [? disordiny] is she All-way. |
B. n. Disorder, an irregularity.
| c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2079, 2083 What disordeny he þare kende, He was besy it to amende..Disordenys when he reproued, Disordeny monkes, þat þaim loued, Of his spekyng were noȝt payed. |
Hence † diˈsordeinely adv. Obs., inordinately, immoderately.
| 1340 Ayenb. 55 Hit ne is no zenne uor to ethe þe guode metes ak ethe his [= but to eat them] to uerliche oþer disordeneliche. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iii. x. 57 A good thynge desordeynly desyred ageynst goddes wylle. |