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    derangement


    1. The regulations, however, by which this derangement is effected in those two different branches of trade, are not altogether the same


    2. Every derangement of the natural distribution of stock is necessarily hurtful to the society in which it takes place; whether it be by repelling from a particular trade the stock which would otherwise go to it, or by attracting towards a particular trade that which would not otherwise come to it


    3. During his late teens he became fanatical in his religious duties to the point of derangement


    4. As his power probed and plucked at the senses of each, he was struck by their topsy-turvy derangement and confusion, the terror and consternation that seethed within each psyche


    5. Then one month to the beginning of this mental derangement they got a call at


    6. I only knew what had happened, and it was real, not a hallucination, or derangement of some sort, at least that’s what I kept telling myself


    7. And by then, Osama bin Laden too had set up the international terror network of Al Qaeda for Muhammad Atta and others to exhibit the Islamic derangement on 9/11/2001 for the world audience


    8. interfere with the immune system suggests that the disease might result from a derangement of the immune system


    9. But the derangement that his death brought about continues


    10. It was, however, not the only cause of her derangement

    11. An inferior agency may be employed to cleanse away the dust and defilement which have accumulated among some of its ten thousand pipes and internal adaptations, during ages when its voice was silent, or rendered harsh and dissonant through the derangement of its powers


    12. I fancy the first stage of your derangement


    13. But they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary mental derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain


    14. I cannot say why I felt so wildly wretched: it must have been temporary derangement; for there is scarcely cause


    15. Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at


    16. I fancy the first stage of your derangement coincides with your leaving the university


    17. Wrench came, but did not apprehend anything serious, spoke of a "slight derangement," and did not speak of coming again on the morrow


    18. What is a second self exactly ? The second self, according to a medical book, written by an expert, which I piirposely read afterwards, is nothing else than the first stage of serioiis mental derangement, which may lead to something very bad


    19. The communication he had received from the tall, bearded member with the kindly eyes was that the member, having felt a slight stomach derangement, wished to do a little massage and to take some drops


    20. In what are these ten millions of dollars to be collected? In bank bills, the credit of which is at least doubtful? No, sir, in specie; and when this is entirely withdrawn from the State banks, and the banks are unable to pay the money for their bills, who does not see that this confidence is instantly destroyed—that the bubble bursts—that floods of paper bills will be poured in upon them, which they will be unable to meet, and which will for a time be as worthless as oak leaves—that the banks themselves must, at least temporarily, become bankrupts, and that a prostration of credit, and all those habits of punctuality which for twenty years, we have been striving so successfully to establish, will inevitably ensue, and, with them, also, there must be suspended the commerce, the industry and manufactures of the country; and a scene of embarrassment and derangement be produced, which has been unexampled in our history

    21. When they are violated in essential particulars, all the concurrent spheres of authority rush against each other, and disorder, derangement, and convulsion are, sooner or later, the necessary consequences


    22. In a year from the time of enlistment their term expires, and what becomes of your conquest, without force to keep it, supposing it to be made? Say that the officers will be called into service in four months, and there is some of the men enlisted six or eight months hence; the officers must serve until the expiration of the term of the last man engaged, or a derangement must take place—always a disagreeable occurrence in an army


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    Synonyms for "derangement"

    derangement overthrow upset mental unsoundness unbalance delusion aberration hallucination illusion insanity

    "derangement" definitions

    a state of mental disturbance and disorientation


    the act of disturbing the mind or body