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desordener (s.xii2/4)
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desordener (s.xii2/4)

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desordiner  
  FEW:  ordinare 7,397b Gdf:  desordener 2,617b GdfC: ∅ TL: desordener 2,1669 DEAF:  ordener (desordener)  DMF:  désordonner  TLF:  désordonner  OED:  disordain v.  MED:  disordeinen v.  DMLBS:  deordinare 614b / disordinare 687b

v.trans.

eccl.to unfrock (a priest): 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  (The king) les (=clerics) volt faire desordener, A la justise puis les cumande a livrer  Becket1 1133
( 1184; MS: s.xiiiex )  s’il est pur mesfet desordenez, C’est a cele feiz justise assez  S Thom beneit1 475
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  un pore curial Un grant pecché criminal Aveit fet, [...]; Desordiné estre deveit E hey & avilé  Mir N-D 255.8
♦statusto dethrone (a king): 
( MS: s.xii2/4 )  Tantes batailles avez faites pur mei, Regnes cunquis e desordenet reis!  Roland 3408

See also:

desordenement2 
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