DISORDER

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

2.
n.

Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope.

3.
n.

Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. Shak.

4.
n.

Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." Locke.

5.
v.

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.

6.
v.

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.

7.
v.

To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] Dryden.

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