misorder

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/mɪsˈɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/

Definition of misorder

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, uncountable)Disorder; irregularity.
    “Surely it is an yl miſorder yͭ folk ſhalbe walking vp & down in the ſermon time (as I haue ſene in this place this Lent: & there ſhalbe ſuch huſſyng & buſſyng in the preachers eare, that it maketh hym oftentymes to forget his matter.”
    “reforme the misorders of the King”
    “The limbs seem but to exhibit merely the amount of natural misarrangement and misorder.”
    “Out of chaos emerges a vicious mis-order, surely a terrible warning against throwing out the old certainties before we glimpse the new.”
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noun

  1. (archaic, uncountable)Disorder; irregularity.
    “Surely it is an yl miſorder yͭ folk ſhalbe walking vp & down in the ſermon time (as I haue ſene in this place this Lent: & there ſhalbe ſuch huſſyng & buſſyng in the preachers eare, that it maketh hym oftentymes to forget his matter.”
    “reforme the misorders of the King”
    “The limbs seem but to exhibit merely the amount of natural misarrangement and misorder.”
    “Out of chaos emerges a vicious mis-order, surely a terrible warning against throwing out the old certainties before we glimpse the new.”
  2. (countable)That which is out of order or ordered incorrectly.
    “To the units transferred a sequence number is added to determine loss, duplications or misorders. Misorders and duplications can easily be resolved at the receiver's side by applying reordering ^([sic]) the sequence or just pruning the duplicated units.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To sort or arrange incorrectly.

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Etymology

From mis- + order.

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