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ated, as when the head of a bone slips from its socket; hence, not working well together; disordered. "The time is out of joint." Shak.

Disordered in the head; dilirious. Walpole.

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. The room with volumes littered round. Swift.

Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. Shak.

Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.

Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

racterized by great disturbance of the nervous system, as evinced by delirium, or stupor, disordered sensibility, etc. -- Nervous system (Anat.), the specialized coördinating apparatus which endows animals with sensation and volition. In vertebrates it is often divided into three systems: the central, brain and spinal…

Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli. -- Par`al*ge"sic (#), a.

To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also pie.]

To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.

Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. "A visage rough." Dryden. "Roughsatyrs." Milton.

Disordered. [Obs.] His ruffin rainment all was stained with blood. Spenser.

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Dryden.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.

Disordered in the brain.

Disturbed; confused; disordered. " Such turbid intervals that use to attend close prisoners." Howell.

Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind. Pope.

To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered. Shak.

Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.