misorder

• mis-order (noun)

From mis- +‎ order.

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/

misorder (countable and uncountable, plural misorders)

1. (uncountable, now rare) Disorder; irregularity.
   • 1549 April 22 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer , Augustine Bernher, compiler, “.] The Syxte Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, whiche He Preached before K. Edward , the XII. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, , London: John Day, , published 1562, →OCLC, folio 73, recto:

     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.

   • 1605, M. N. , Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, , London: G E for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

     reforme the misorders of the King

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

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

   • 1989, Pamela Marsh, The Savage Depth of Uncertainty‎:

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

2. (countable) That which is out of order or ordered incorrectly.
   • 2013, Gyula Csopaki, ‎Margit Dibuz, ‎Katalin Tarnay, Testing of Communicating Systems: Methods and Applications:

     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 the sequence or just pruning the duplicated units.

misorder (third-person singular simple present misorders, present participle misordering, simple past and past participle misordered)

1. (transitive) To sort or arrange incorrectly.

• “misorder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• morrised