Disordering

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disorder \Dis*or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disordered}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Disordering}.]
     1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to
        throw into confusion; to confuse.
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              Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence.
                                                    --Burke.
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              The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary
              rafters into a common ruin.           --Jer. Taylor.
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     2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions
        of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or
        indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to
        disorder the head or stomach.
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              A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party
              spirit.                               --Macaulay.
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     3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] --Dryden.
  
     Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.
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