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disˈorient, v.
[ad. F. désorienter to turn from an eastward position, cause to lose one's bearings, embarrass, f. des- dis- 4 + orienter to orient.]
trans. To turn from the east; to cause to ‘lose one's bearings’; to put out, disconcert, embarrass. Hence, disoriented, disorienting, ppl. adjs.
1655J. Jennings Elise 48 'Twas Philippin who was disoriented, but more Isabella. 1740Warburton Div. Legat. v. (R.), I doubt then the learned professor was a little disoriented when he called the promises in Ezekiel and in the Revelations the same. 1835Syd. Smith Memoir, etc. (1855) II. 356, I hope you will disorient yourself soon. The departure of the wise men from the East seems to have been on a more extensive scale than is generally supposed. 1931A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation 21 Others..emerged from it [sc. the war] shaken and disoriented. 1950M. Lowry Let. Jan. (1967) 189, I was trading on your..disorienting yourself from your own orbit. 1951R. M. Williams Amer. Society (1952) xiv. 535 Individuals are pulled this way and that..until the person is literally dis-oriented. 1957J. Kerouac On the Road (1958) 274 Where disoriented people have to go to be near a specific elsewhere. 1964A. W. Gouldner in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 203 A disorienting normlessness. |