Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Out of right order; unregulated; disorderly.
  • Extreme; inordinate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inordinate; disorderly.

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  • adjective obsolete inordinate; disorderly

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Examples

  • From thenceforth it was ordained that the poor fathers should never disrobe themselves any more before the world, but in their vestry-room, or sextry, as they call it; especially in the presence of women, lest it should tempt them to the sin of longing and disordinate desire.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • From thenceforth it was ordained that the poor fathers should never disrobe themselves any more before the world, but in their vestry-room, or sextry, as they call it; especially in the presence of women, lest it should tempt them to the sin of longing and disordinate desire.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Will gentlemen learne howe to prosecute vertue, and to profligat from their minde, disordinate Loue, and affection, I referre theim to the Historie of Tancredi, and to Galgano of Siena?

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • I do make my complainte, and whether you geue me cause to aduaunce my cries vp into the heauens, your selfe shall be the iudge: for, if like a iudge in deede you doe geue ouer your disordinate affection, I then appeale to the iudgement of your inuincible minde, of late accomplished with all curtesie and gentlenesse.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • And that which I do alleage, is proued, not without manifest reason, wherof I nowe doe fele experience, hauing let slip the raynes of the bridle to farre ouer my disordinate affections, beyng drawen from the right hande, and traiterously deceiued.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Florence, not limitting any order to their disordinate expences, grewe daylye worse and worse.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Oh filthy lust, absurd furie, disordinate and vaine desire, building nests with errours, and torments for vvounded harts, the vtter destroyer, and idle letting goe by of all good blessings.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Open the eyes of thine vnderstanding and knowe thy selfe, geue place to reason, and reforme thy vnshamefull and disordinate appetites.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Assembly a noble and rich Matron that conceived much delight to behold me, and could find no remedy to her passions and disordinate appetite, but continually desired to have her pleasure with me, as Pasiphae had with a Bull.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • For whiche cause, Lamberto vpon a daye did cal his other twoo brethren vnto him, and tolde them of what honour their father was, to what value his rychesse did amounte, and nowe to what pouertie they were come through their disordinate expences: giuing them counsaile (so well as he could) that before miserie did growe any further vpon them, by selling that whiche was lefte, they shoulde goe their waye: whiche they did.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

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