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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disorder \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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