Absence or want of Order, &c
Absence or want of Order, &c
#59. [Absence or want of Order, &c.] Disorder. -- N. disorder;
derangement &c. 61; irregularity; anomaly &c. (unconformity) 83; anarchy,
anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c. adj.; disunion; discord &c. 24.
confusion; confusedness &c. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle,
litter, lumber; cahotage[obs]; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.],
hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch[obs], hotch-pot[obs]; imbroglio, chaos,
omnium gatherum[Lat], medley; mere mixture &c. 41; fortuitous concourse of
atoms, disjecta membra[Lat], rudis indigestaque moles [Lat][Ovid].
- complexity &c. 59a.
- turmoil; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder[obs],
pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar,
revolution, riot, rumpus, stour[obs], scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb
[baseball], fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee,
spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind &c. 349; bear garden, Babel,
Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most
admired disorder, concordia discors[Lat]; Bedlam, all hell broke loose;
bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre[Fr], Devil
to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work[Fr], pretty piece of
business[Fr].
- [legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence;
misdemeanor.
- [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.
- V. be disorderly &c. adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.
- put out of order; derange &c. 61; ravel &c. 219; ruffle, rumple.
- Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear;
irregular, desultory; anomalous &c. (unconformable) 83; acephalous[obs],
deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical,
immethodical[obs]; unsymmetric[obs], unsystematic; untidy, slovenly;
dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical;
unarranged &c. (see arrange &c. 60)[obs]; confused; deranged &c. 61;
topsy-turvy &c. (inverted) 218; shapeless &c. 241; disjointed, out of
joint.
- troublous[obs]; riotous &c. (violent) 173.
- complex &c. 59a.
- Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and
starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a
ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c. 218.
- Phr. the cart before the horse; hysteron proteron[Grk][Grk];
chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds "
[Addison].