Dictionary entry

Disorder (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐or″der, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disordered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disordering.] 1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.

Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. Burke.

The burden... disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. Jer. Taylor.

2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.

A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. Macaulay.

3. To depose from holy orders. Dryden.

Syn. — To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.