Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Disorder; want of method; irregularity.
- To order or manage amiss; put out of order; derange.
- To misconduct; misbehave: used chiefly reflexively.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete irregularity; disorder
- v. transitive To sort or arrange incorrectly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly.
- n. obsolete Irregularity; disorder.
Etymologies
- mis- + order (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I wasn’t slamming McDonald’s, but for anyone who’s been in one, a misorder is promptly thrown in the garbage, which is the same place your jackass comment #213 belongs.”
“Both sexes dressed in gaudy colors and delighted in strange fashions, so that, {497} is Roger Ascham said, "he thought himself most brave that was most monstrous in misorder.”
“And for all the great commaunde-mentes, that came out of the Courte, yet this bold misorder, was winked at, and borne withall, in the Courte.”
“Parlament, many good Proclamations, diuerse strait commanude-mentes, sore punishment openlie, speciall regarde priuatelie, cold not do so moch to take away one misorder, as the example of one big one of this Courte did, still to kepe vp the same: The memorie whereof, doth yet remaine, in a common prouerbe of”
“Yea, there be as fayre houses of Religion, as great prouision, as diligent officers, to kepe vp this misorder, as Bridewell is, and all the Masters there, to kepe downe misorder.”
“O prodigious licentiousness, and hellish misorder, worthy to be drowned in the lake of Lethe!”
“And for all the great commaunde - mentes, that came out of the Courte, yet this bold misorder, was winked at, and borne withall, in the Courte.”
“Parlament, many good Proclamations, diuerse strait commanude - mentes, sore punishment openlie, speciall regarde priuatelie, cold not do so moch to take away one misorder, as the example of one big one of this Courte did, still to kepe vp the same: The memorie whereof, doth yet remaine, in a common prouerbe of”
“If they misorder something, it's my problem, because I should look at their orders.”
“And yet further desiring, and also most earnestly requiring you, as you tender the state of our company, that you will haue a speciall regard vnto the order of our houses and our seruants as well at Colmogro and Vologda, as at Mosco and to see and consider if any misorder be amongst our seruants or apprentises wherby you thinke we might hereafter be put to hinderance or losse of any part of our goods or priuilege there, that you doe not onely see the same reformed, but also to certifie vs thereof by your letter at large, as our trust is in you.”
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