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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,059 words match “ORDER”

DISHEVELED a. 2 definitions
Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.
DISJOINT v.
To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.
DISMARSHAL v.
To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [R.] Drummond.
DISOBEY v.
nds, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws. Not to disobey her lord's behest. Tennyson.
DISORD n.
Disorder. [Obs.] Holland.
DISORDINATE a.
Inordinate; disorderly. [Obs.] "With disordinate gestures." Prynne.
DISORDINATION n.
The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] Bacon.
DISORGANIZE v.
nment, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).
DISORGANIZER n.
One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion.
DISPLAY v.
to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade. Proudly displaying the insignia of their order. Prescott.
DISPOSAL n. 2 definitions
The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
DISPOSE v. 3 definitions
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.
DISPOSITION n. 2 definitions
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of…
DISPROVE v.
ove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it. Atterbury.
DISRULILY adv.
In a disorderly manner. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
DISRULY a.
Unruly; disorderly. [Obs.]
DISTEMPER v. 3 definitions
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.
DISTEMPERATE a.
Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Wodroephe.
DISTEMPERATURE n. 2 definitions
Disorder; confusion. Shak.
DISTRACTED a.
Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
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