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▪ I. unˈorderly, a. Now rare. [un-1 7, 5 b.] 1. Not in conformity with good order; irregular in respect of action or conduct.
1483Acta Dom. Audit. 142*/2 The wrangwis and vnordourly leding of a processe apoune þe said land. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xi. 26 b, The fountaine of al this whole mischiefe is an vnorderly counterfaiting. 1587Holinshed Chron. (ed. 2) III. 1254/1 Although it be somewhat..vnorderlie to treat of vnorderlie officers vnder such an vnorderlie king as Richard the third was. 1601J. Wheeler Treat. Comm. 107 The vnorderlie settinge foorth and publishing of the Emperors Mandate. 1642Coll. Rights & Priv. Parl. 7 How unorderly were it for the satisfying of men, to runne into his displeasure. 1800Coleridge Piccolom. iv. vii. 214 The Emperor perpetrated..deeds most unorderly. b. In stronger sense: Disorderly.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clxxxv. 1147 Wee see why God hath pronounced that..they be..destitute of vnderstanding when their lyfe is loose and vnorderly. 1626L. Owen Running Register 16 The Englishmens dissolute liuing, and vnorderly behauiour in the said Seminarie. 1761Ann. Reg., Chron. 235/2 Small parties of the unorderly, undisciplined mob. 2. Not observing due order or arrangement; disordered, confused.
1578Thynne in Animadv. (1865) p. lix, To desplay my Inwarde mynde, whiche..thus entreth into his vnorderly discourse. 1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. ii. 7 b, Thereby to giue sentence of methodicall proceeding or vnorderly confusion. 1609R. Barnerd Faithf. Sheph. 83 An vnorderly heaping vp of things together confounds memory. 1656Hobbes Liberty, Necess., & Chance 143 After much unorderly discourse he comes in with This is the doctrine [etc.]. ▪ II. unˈorderly, adv. [un-1 11.] 1. Not in good order; not according to a fixed order or arrangement; irregularly.
c1470Henry Wallace x. 685 Wallace has seyn the Scottis wnordourly Folow the chas. 1547Recorde Judic. Ur. 9 Nothynge done unorderly cann be well understanded of the reders. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 7 These bones are perforated, here, and there, vnorderly, with a sort of smal holes. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. viii. 558 Shee seemeth faultie and vnprofitable, being ill placed and vnorderly disposed. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 46 Whatever member of the Assemblie does speak unorderlie, and without leave asked..of the Moderator. 2. Not in an orderly or well-regulated manner; irregularly, improperly.
1471Act. Audit. (1839) 16/1 The lordis..deliuers þat þe processis of þe breif of Richt..is vnlachfully and vnorderly procedit. 1559J. Aylmer Harborowe G 4 b, Paule mente to bridle them..if they had prophecied vnorderly. 1596Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1906) ii. 315 So that such disobedient and lawlesse persons may not live so unorderly. 1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 387 They make Conuenticles against bishopps, and accuse them vnorderly, and against the forme of Canons. a1653Binning Usef. Case Consc. (1693) 17 Paul would have as much distance kept with a brother walking unorderly, as a pagan. |