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some purpose considered to be bad is the idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized union of individuals for mutual support, in urging their demands or resisting the claims of others, and may be good or bad according to circumstances; as, a combiniation of workmen or of employers to effect or to prevent…

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.

ducts of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.

It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and order forms.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson.

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. [Formerly written also quire.]

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin. Contused wound, a wound attended with bruising.

s an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body. [Scot.]

A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps. A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )…

educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists.

To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.

ion or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; th…

ive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.

The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. Sir W. Scott.