discomposing

Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.

Immense quantities of locusts were everywhere met with, making the ground yellow where they lay, and rising with a rustling noise, which was very discomposing to the horses at our approach.

St Paul’s was one of those minds, so discomposing to superficial and merely practical thinkers, which cannot be content with half-way conclusions.

There is another kind of disturbance which shows itself also in the first year, and has a certain analogy to the discomposing effect of sound.

“This is he—I mean, my love, this is most discomposing.”