1. Not in conformity with good order; irregular in respect of action or conduct.
1483. Acta Dom. Audit., 142*/2. The wrangwis and vnordourly leding of a processe apoune þe said land.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. xi. 26 b. The fountaine of al this whole mischiefe is an vnorderly counterfaiting.
1587. Holinshed, Chron. (ed. 2), III. 1254/1. Although it be somewhat … vnorderlie to treat of vnorderlie officers vnder such an vnorderlie king as Richard the third was.
1601. J. Wheeler, Treat. Comm., 107. The vnorderlie settinge foorth and publishing of the Emperors Mandate.
1642. Coll. Rights & Priv. Parl., 7. How unorderly were it for the satisfying of men, to runne into his displeasure.
1800. Coleridge, Piccolom., IV. vii. 214. The Emperor perpetrated … deeds most unorderly.
b. In stronger sense: Disorderly.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut., clxxxv. 1147. Wee see why God hath pronounced that … they be … destitute of vnderstanding when their lyfe is loose and vnorderly.
1626. L. Owen, Running Register, 16. The Englishmens dissolute liuing, and vnorderly behauiour in the said Seminarie.
1761. Ann. Reg., Chron., 235/2. Small parties of the unorderly, undisciplined mob.
2. Not observing due order or arrangement; disordered, confused.
1578. Thynne, in Animadv. (1865), p. lix. To desplay my Inwarde mynde, whiche … thus entreth into his vnorderly discourse.
1588. Fraunce, Lawiers Log., I. ii. 7 b. Thereby to giue sentence of methodicall proceeding or vnorderly confusion.
1609. R. Barnerd, Faithf. Sheph., 83. An vnorderly heaping vp of things together confounds memory.
1656. Hobbes, Liberty, Necess., & Chance, 143. After much unorderly discourse he comes in with This is the doctrine [etc.].
