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▪ I. misˈorder, n. Now rare. [mis-1 4.] 1. = disorder (in various senses); absence or breach of order; confusion; disorderly conduct, misbehaviour.
c1400Ser J. Mandevelle & Gt. Souden (MS. Bodl. e. Museo 160, fol. 111 b), They by & selle by craft & gyn, Theyr mysorder cawses alle myscheve. 1494Fabyan Chron. ii. xlvi. 29 After hym reygned .xx. Kynges successyuely..of the whiche..is no mencyon made eyther for their rudenesse..or discordaunt meanes, or maners..the whiche mys⁓ordre Clerkes disdayned to wryte or put in memory. c1515Bp. West in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. I. 182, I have begonne my Visitacyon in my Cathedrall Churche of Ely, wher I have ffounde suche Mysorder..that [etc.]. 1586Cogan Haven Health ccxiv. (1636) 228 It is better to preserve health by sobriety and temperance, than by surfet and misorder, to make the body weake and sickly. 1646R. Baillie Anabaptism (1647) Pref. A, When an Army is once..put in such misorder as it begins to run. 1654Z. Coke Logick 50 The misorder (ἀταξία) in this motion is not from the soul. 1849H. Miller Footpr. Creat. ix. (1874) 160 The limbs seem to exhibit merely the amount of natural misarrangement and misorder. b. An instance of disorder; an ill-ordered procedure or state of things.
1538Starkey England i. iii. 20 Except we..serch out al commyn fautys and general mysordurys. 1623Camden Rem. (1636) 263 His Uncles..with other of that faction, who sought to reforme the misorders of..his Counsellours. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 96, I will speak of the redress of some misorders very frequent in our Age. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. xlv. 462 Because he found still the Continuance of that his misorder. 1885Edgar Old Ch. Life Scot. v. 234 To report to the Session what scandals and misorders existed within the bounds of his charge. †2. Bad or wrong order. In first two quots. with reference to the ‘ordering’ of clergy. Obs.
1561Burnynge of Paules Church, etc. (1563) O ij b, The order by whiche oure Byshops and Priestes are made nowe, is more agreeing to the..tradition of Thapostles than that misorder wherby the Popish prelates order their clergy. 1563–83Foxe A. & M. 1693/2 Boner. Well Syr, what say you to the Sacrament of Orders? Smith. Ye may call it the Sacrament of misorders. 1641R. B. K. Parallel of Liturgy with Mass-bk. 87 We follow punctually the misorders..we cast the Epistles ever before and the Gospels behind. ▪ II. † misˈorder, v. Obs. [mis-1 1.] 1. trans. To put into disorder or confusion; to confuse, disturb.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. ccix. 223 The doughter of Canutus..by whome many thynges were mysse orderyd, and specyally by y⊇ subtylytie of this Erle Goodwyn. 1530Palsgr. 638/1 Who hath mysordred these thynges sythe I wente. I dyd put every thyng in his ryght place. 1555in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) 262 That which shall be misordered by negligence. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 33 The Time (mis-order'd) doth..Crowd vs, and crush vs, to this monstrous Forme. 1909Daily Chron. 24 Aug. 4/3 [He] charged the Admiralty with having so misordered the Navy as to expose the nation to the gravest jeopardy every hour. 2. To ill-treat, ill-use.
1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xxviii. 265 When he was mocked..scourged..and most cruelly misordered and dealt with all. 1575Gamm. Gurton v. ii. (Manly), Master Doctor vpon you here complaineth That you and your maides shuld him much misorder. 3. refl. To misbehave, misconduct oneself; to be disorderly or ill-behaved.
1505Rep. Var. Coll. (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1901) I. 5 If there be any of the bretherne..that messay or do in myssorderynge hyme selffe one anenst another. 1572Act 14 Eliz. c. 5 §2 Every person or persons..taken vagrant wandring and misordering themselves. 1588Nottingham Rec. IV. 220 For misorderinge hym selfe in the sarmon time. 1740Act. 13 Geo. II, c. 24 The County..where such Person shall be so found begging, or otherwise misordering him or herself. |