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English
Etymology
From dis- + orb.
Verb
disorb (third-person singular simple present disorbs, present participle disorbing, simple past and past participle disorbed)
- (transitive) To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds
A Grecian and his sword, if he do set
The very wings of reason to his heels
And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove,
Or like a star disorb'd?
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