irregulate

English

Etymology

From ir- +‎ regulate.

Verb

irregulate (third-person singular simple present irregulates, present participle irregulating, simple past and past participle irregulated)

  1. (transitive) to make irregular; to disorder
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      its fluctuations are but motions subservient; which winds, storms, shores, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates

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