discompose

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English compose English discompose From dis- + compose.

1. To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.

   “I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning.”

   “You will not be discomposed by the Lord Chancellor, I dare say?”

2. To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.

   “If e'er with airy horns I planted heads, Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds, Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude,”