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1. Not in good order; not according to a fixed order or arrangement; irregularly.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, X. 685. Wallace has seyn the Scottis wnordourly Folow the chas.
1547. Recorde, Judic. Ur., 9. Nothynge done unorderly cann be well understanded of the reders.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 7. These bones are perforated, here, and there, vnorderly, with a sort of smal holes.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. viii. 558. Shee seemeth faultie and vnprofitable, being ill placed and vnorderly disposed.
1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), 46. Whatever member of the Assemblie does speak unorderlie, and without leave asked … of the Moderator.
2. Not in an orderly or well-regulated manner; irregularly, improperly.
1471. Act. Audit. (1839), 16/1. The lordis … deliuers þat þe processis of þe breif of Richt … is vnlachfully and vnorderly procedit.
1559. Aylmer, Harborowe, G 4 b. Paule mente to bridle them … if they had prophecied vnorderly.
1596. Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1906), II. 315. So that such disobedient and lawlesse persons may not live so unorderly.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-Martyr, 387. They make Conuenticles against bishopps, and accuse them vnorderly, and against the forme of Canons.
a. 1653. Binning, Usef. Case Consc. (1693), 17. Paul would have as much distance kept with a brother walking unorderly, as a pagan.
