Definition of "discomposed" [dis•com•posed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of discompose. (verb)
• Uneasy or disturbed (adjective)

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• "I am not disposed to be nervous, for I have always conscientiously avoided tea and too much study, and I have lived in the open air, and always managed to secure eight hours of dreamless, honest sleep; but I was "discomposed," as some one charitably explained it that morning; and Mrs. Darcy's cap was the cause."
• "Because a "good intellectual" is never discomposed, never involved in social passions, never lets himself drift into the street."
• "The tale of the supernatural is traditionally an art of slowly built crescendo: we know that eventual horrors begin with small intimations? that witnesses will at first be only mildly discomposed."