Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS I SECTION IV. 1. ORDER IN GENERAL


58. Order -- N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo [Lat.] ; music of the spheres.

59. [Absence, or want of Order, &c ] Disorder -- N. disorder; derangement &c 61; irregularity; anomaly &c (unconformity) 83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c adj.; disunion; discord &c 24.

59a. Complexity -- N. complexity; complexness &c adj.; complexus † ; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication † ; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c (convolution) 248; sleave † , tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl † ; webwork † .

60. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement -- N. arrangement; plan &c 626; preparation &c 673; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting &c v.; assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis † , graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation.

61. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement -- N. derangement &c v.; disorder &c 59; evection † , discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization † ; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling &c v.; inversion &c 218; corrugation &c (fold) 258; involvement.