[UN-1 8.]
† 1. Not belonging to a religious order; not properly ordained, Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Parson’s T., ¶ 85. Thow shalt considere … wheither thou be … wedded or sengle, ordered or unordred,… clerk or seculeer.
1588. Allen, Admon., 32. Creatinge … new, hungrie, base, and vnordered Preistes.
1607. T. Rogers, 39 Art. (1625), 200. They be vnordered Apostates, pretended, and sacrilegious ministers.
2. Not put in order; unarranged.
1477. Norton, Ord. Alch. (MS. Ashm. 1464), Proem. Of all the books vnordered of Alchimy The effectes be heere sett owt orderlie.
1504. Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, III. xliii. 231. God … that lefte nothynge vnordred in all the worlde.
1549. Cheke, Hurt. Sedit. (1569), G i b. What is vnordred plentie, but a wastfull spoyle?
1826. Mrs. Shelley, Last Man, III. 200. The consequence of their journey in their present unordered and chiefless array.
1877. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. II. 183. This was not a mere casual reflection … taking a solitary … position among those various and unordered ideas.
† 3. Not observing due order; disorderly. Obs.
1572. Abp. Parker, Corr. (Parker Soc.), 403. [To] inquire of such unordered persons papistically set, not coming to prayers according to the laws.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 22. Dare ye … Too raise such raks iaks on sens, and danger vnorderd?
1611. A. Stafford, Niobe, 19. To satisfie the vnordred appetites of the body, and vnlawfull desires of the soule.
4. Not ordered or commanded.
1891. Cent. Dict.
1906. Westm. Gaz., 23 May, 4/1. The gay tweeds … remain unordered.
