What is "disorders"

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In the temple of Mecca, three Charegites or enthusiasts discoursed of the disorders of the church and state: they soon agreed, that the deaths of Ali, of Moawiyah, and of his friend Amrou, the viceroy of Egypt, would restore the peace and unity of religion.

His honest indiscretion united against him the servile crowd, who found their private benefit in the public disorders, and who preferred the favor of a tyrant to the inexorable equality of the laws.

With the authority of a veteran commander, he represented to them that the relaxation of discipline had introduced a long train of disorders, the effects of which were at length experienced by the soldiers themselves.

Whatever flattering expectations he had conceived of reconciling the public disorders, Tacitus soon was convinced that the licentiousness of the army disdained the feeble restraint of laws, and his last hour was hastened by anguish and disappointment.

The public disorders relaxed the vigilance of their guard, and they easily found means to escape from the place of their exile, and to repair, though with some precaution, and in disguise, to the court of Licinius.

The army, which Julian held in readiness for immediate action, was recruited and augmented by the disorders of the times.

If these disorders continue, I will revenge on the magistrates the crimes of the people.

But the first magistrate of Hadrianople, incensed by some disorders which had been committed at his country-house, refused this indulgence.

A fine of two hundred pounds of gold was imposed on the corporate body of merchants and manufacturers: an order was signified, in the name of the emperor, to all the officers, and inferior servants, of the courts of justice, that, during the continuance of the public disorders, they should strictly confine themselves to their houses.

The hippodrome itself was condemned, during several years, to a mournful silence: with the restoration of the games, the same disorders revived.

The view of these disorders, which had been fomented by his laws and example, ^40 imbittered the declining age of the Persian monarch.

After a long series of legal succession, the military disorders of the third century were again revived.

We cannot, however, refuse her judicious and important remark, that the disorders of the times were the misfortune and the glory of Alexius.

The death of Manuel, and the disorders of the minority, soon opened the fairest field to his ambition.

A rich and noble Egyptian, of the name of Mokawkas, had dissembled his faith to obtain the administration of his province: in the disorders of the Persian war he aspired to independence: the embassy of Mahomet ranked him among princes.