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pty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic] Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans. ).

oise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

Resembling chaos; confused.

In a compendious manner. Compendiously exressed by the word chaos. Bentley.

one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

devotion. [R.] Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos. Beau. & Fl. Days of devotion. See under Day.

To deprive of heritage; to dispossess. And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here. Milton.

The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus. To the infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile. Shak.

Not capable of being mixed or mingled. A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles. Cudworth.

Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. [Obs.] "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.

ed to public manners. Jer. Taylor. Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night! Pope.

determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. "Chaos [shall] judge the strife." Milton.

imary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.

Having no end; interminable; unending. "Timeless night and chaos." Young.

Chaos; confusion.