Dis*or"der (?), n. [Pref. dis- + order: cf. F. d'esordre.]
1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Pope.
3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.
Shak.
4. Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body."
Locke.
Syn. -- Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle; disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness; ailment; malady; distemper. See Disease.
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Dis*or"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disordered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disordering.]
1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence.
Burke.
The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin.
Jer. Taylor.
2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit.
Macaulay.
3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.]
Dryden.
Syn. -- To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.
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