Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a disordinate manner. Irregularly.
  • Inordinately.

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  • adverb obsolete Inordinately.

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  • adverb obsolete inordinately

Etymologies

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disordinate +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Is this then a thing of that worth, that for it my soul should suffer, and become worse than it was? as either basely dejected, or disordinately affected, or confounded within itself, or terrified?

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

  • These be the words of Denis that he wrote in his epistle to Polycarp, and to Apollophanes, saying: We were, we twain, at Heliopolis, and we saw the moon of heaven go disordinately, and the time was not convenable.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • To whom the prince said: Demean thee not disordinately, lest thou perish by grievous death.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • The third; for so much as Adam had stretched his hand disordinately to the fruit forbidden, it was thing convenable that the new Adam should stretch his hands on the cross.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • One great discouragement arises commonly to the student, where the particular library in which he reads has been so disordinately collected that he cannot _pursue_ a subject once started.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • One great discouragement arises commonly to the student, where the particular library in which he reads has been so disordinately collected that he cannot _pursue_ a subject once started.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • The effect of which supplication was that the temporall landes devoutely given, and disordinately spent by religious and other spirituall persons, should be seased into the Kyngs hands, sithence the same might suffice to maintayne to the honor of the King and defence of the realme fifteene Erles, fifteene C.

    The Battaile of Agincourt Michael Drayton 1597

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