irregulate

English

Etymology

From ir- +‎ regulate.

Verb

irregulate (third-person singular simple present irregulates, present participle irregulating, simple past and past participle irregulated)

1. (transitive) to make irregular; to disorder
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     its fluctuations are but motions subservient; which winds, storms, shores, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates

References

• “irregulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.