Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disorder; want of method; irregularity.
- To order or manage amiss; put out of order; derange.
- To misconduct; misbehave: used chiefly reflexively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly.
- noun obsolete Irregularity; disorder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
irregularity ;disorder - verb transitive To sort or arrange incorrectly.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I wasn’t slamming McDonald’s, but for anyone who’s been in one, a misorder is promptly thrown in the garbage, which is the same place your jackass comment #213 belongs.
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Both sexes dressed in gaudy colors and delighted in strange fashions, so that, {497} is Roger Ascham said, "he thought himself most brave that was most monstrous in misorder."
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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Parlament, many good Proclamations, diuerse strait commanude-mentes, sore punishment openlie, speciall regarde priuatelie, cold not do so moch to take away one misorder, as the example of one big one of this Courte did, still to kepe vp the same: The memorie whereof, doth yet remaine, in a common prouerbe of
The Scholemaster 1870
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Yea, there be as fayre houses of Religion, as great prouision, as diligent officers, to kepe vp this misorder, as Bridewell is, and all the Masters there, to kepe downe misorder.
The Scholemaster 1870
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And for all the great commaunde-mentes, that came out of the Courte, yet this bold misorder, was winked at, and borne withall, in the Courte.
The Scholemaster 1870
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O prodigious licentiousness, and hellish misorder, worthy to be drowned in the lake of Lethe!
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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Yea, there be as fayre houses of Religion, as great prouision, as diligent officers, to kepe vp this misorder, as Bridewell is, and all the Masters there, to kepe downe misorder.
The Scholemaster 1570
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Parlament, many good Proclamations, diuerse strait commanude - mentes, sore punishment openlie, speciall regarde priuatelie, cold not do so moch to take away one misorder, as the example of one big one of this Courte did, still to kepe vp the same: The memorie whereof, doth yet remaine, in a common prouerbe of
The Scholemaster 1570
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And for all the great commaunde - mentes, that came out of the Courte, yet this bold misorder, was winked at, and borne withall, in the Courte.
The Scholemaster 1570
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Yea, there be as fayre houses of Religion, as great prouision, as diligent officers, to kepe vp this misorder, as Bridewell is, and all the Masters there, to kepe downe misorder.
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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