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† disˈordinate, a. Obs.
Forms: α. 4–7 disordinat, 5 dys-, disordynate, disordenate, 6– disordinate. β. 5–6 des-, dys-, 6 disordon(n)ate.
[Latinized form of OF. desordené (= Sp. desordenado, It. disordinato), pa. pple. of desordener to disordain. Cf. the synonym deordinate from med.L. *deordināre, and see de- I. 6.]
1. Not conformed to moral order, or to what is right, befitting, or reasonable; transgressing the bounds of moderation or propriety; unrestrained, immoderate, inordinate. (Cf. disorderly a. 2.)
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋348 The horrible disordinat scantnesse of clothing. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 34/2 For this cause putteth gylbert the necglygence of prelates emonge the thyngys dysordynate. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. vii. 75 [The soul] falleth by affeccion in loue dysordonate in to powder & asshes of thynges erthely. 1577J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 171 They daunce with disordinate gestures..to dishonest verses. 1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. ii. xlviii. 223 b, Although the lyfe of man in many other thinges be disordinate and out of course. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 117 Winter begins in May, because of the disordinate raines which fall from that Moneth to the end of August. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxii. 271 Disordinate Passions and Perturbations of the Mind.
b. of persons.
1483Caxton Cato A ij, By whiche they be the more disordynate and obstynate in their Iniquite. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. 4 A Prince..disordinate in eating, and not sober in drinking, is termed but vicious. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iii. (1851) 99 They..unfitted..the People, now grown worse and more disordinat, to receave..any Liberty. 1671― Samson 701 With sickness and disease thou bow'st them down..Though not disordinate, yet causeless suffering The punishment of dissolute days.
2. Devoid of order, confused, irregular; = disorderly a. i. (Only in De Quincey.)
1822–56De Quincey Confess. Wks. V. 146 This private Oswestry library wore something of the same wild tumultuary aspect, fantastic and disordinate. 1840― Style Wks. XI. 182 Artifices peculiarly adapted to the powers of the Latin language, and yet..careless and disordinate.
Hence † disˈordinateness, Obs.
1657Divine Lover 113 When shall disordinatenesse be blotted out of thee? |