disorb

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English

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Etymology

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From dis- +‎ orb.

Verb

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disorb (third-person singular simple present disorbs, present participle disorbing, simple past and past participle disorbed)

  1. (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[ward] 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?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disorb”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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