misorder

plural misorders · alternative noun mis-order

1. archaicuncountableDisorder; irregularity.

   reforme the misorders of the King

   1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC

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   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.

   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

   The limbs seem but to exhibit merely the amount of natural misarrangement and misorder.

   1849, H. Miller, Foot-prints of Creator, page 163

   Out of chaos emerges a vicious mis-order, surely a terrible warning against throwing out the old certainties before we glimpse the new.

   1989, Pamela Marsh, The Savage Depth of Uncertainty

2. countableThat 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.

   2013, Gyula Csopaki, Margit Dibuz, Katalin Tarnay, Testing of Communicating Systems: Methods and Applications

present singular third person misorders · participle present misordering · participle past misordered · past misordered · alternative noun mis-order

1. transitiveTo sort or arrange incorrectly.