To turn out of the proper place; to disorder, to put out of order.--Todd's Johnson. Webster.
"About twenty years ago," says Mr. Todd, "this word was condemend [sic] as a Gallicism." The following are among the earliest instances of its use:
That Robespierre might fall without deranging the general system.--British Critic, Vol. 5. p. 77.
The republic of regicides has actually conquered the finest parts of Europe; has distressed, disunited, deranged, and broke to pieces all the rest.--Burke on a Regicide Peace.