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1745 B. Parker Surv. 6 Days Wks. Creation ii. 17 From the exterior Parts of the Substance, thus chaotically mixed, there was nothing but a Void, or perfect Vacuum surrounding it.

1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. ii. 318 It [sc. matter] is a stubborn substance, And thinks chaotically, as it acts.

1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 22 The Life..has been..chaotically mis-narrated.

1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop ii. 22 His thoughts raced madly, chaotically.

1967 M. Glenny tr. M. Bulgakov Master & Margarita xx. 263 Every lamp was burning..lighting up the chaotically untidy room.

2003 E. Marriott Plague (U.S. ed.) ii. 19 Throughout the small hours, disheveled ships' crews of all nationalities danced chaotically to the hornpipe.

1975 Science 19 Sept. 984/3 Solutions to even the simplest non-linear difference equations may behave chaotically.

1988 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 July 800/3 Chaotically fluctuating flow patterns..have long been studied under the name of turbulence.

2004 K. Nakamura & T. Harayama Quantum Chaos & Quantum Dots i. 3 The solution of the linear Schrödinger equation cannot behave chaotically in the same way as that of the Newtonian equation.

2010 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 466 1879 There is a priori the possibility that the vortex could move chaotically while the body moves in a regular fashion or vice versa.