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Webster 1913 Edition
Chaos
Cha′os
(kā′ŏs)
, Noun.
[L.
chaos
chaos (in senses 1 & 2), Gr. χάος
, fr. χάινειν
(root χα
) to yawn, to gape, to open widely. Cf. Chasm
.] 1.
An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
[Archaic]
Between us and there is fixed a great
chaos
. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans.).
2.
The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.
3.
Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chaos
CHAOS
,Noun.
1.
That confusion, or confused mass, in which matter is supposed to have existed, before it was separated into its different kinds and reduced to order, by the creating power of God. Rudis, indigestaque moles.2.
Any mixed mass, without due form or order; as a chaos of materials.3.
Confusion; disorder; a state in which the parts are undistinguished.