misorder

English

Alternative forms

  • mis-order (noun)

Etymology

From mis- +‎ order.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪsˈɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/

Noun

misorder (countable and uncountable, plural misorders)

  1. (uncountable, now rare) Disorder; irregularity.
    • 1549 April 22 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Syxte Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, whiche He Preached before K. Edward [VI], the XII. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 73, recto:
      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.
    • 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
      reforme the misorders of the King
    • 1849, H. Miller, Foot-prints of Creator, page 163:
      The limbs seem but to exhibit merely the amount of natural misarrangement and misorder.
    • 1989, Pamela Marsh, The Savage Depth of Uncertainty‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2013, Gyula Csopaki, ‎Margit Dibuz, ‎Katalin Tarnay, Testing of Communicating Systems: Methods and Applications:
      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

misorder (third-person singular simple present misorders, present participle misordering, simple past and past participle misordered)

  1. (transitive) To sort or arrange incorrectly.

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