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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

disorb en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + orb.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To eject from orbit, to unsphere, or dispose of an orb.
    • 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? c. 1602 (date written), 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]:

Forms

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disorbed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
disorbed Tense=Past lexicographic
disorbing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
disorbs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic