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iness, void of strife. Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. L'Estrange.

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

eason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason…

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.

To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. He was diseased in body and mind. Macaulay.

dition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.

To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [R.] Drummond.

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

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] Bacon.

y, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).

The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. [Obs.] In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.

the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.