irregularitas

irregularitas [ML] 1 deviation from the norm, irregularity. mortis ~as de suo more perverso pervertit ordinem P. Blois Ep. 174. 469B; et iste ordo dicitur solus ordo, quia secundarium ordinem non habet, ut modi supradicti, nisi fuerit per ~atem vel adjunctionem alicujus modi supradicti Mens. & Disc. (Anon. IV) 31. 2 breach of rule, illegality (esp. w. ref. to canon law, sc. as impediment to exercise of priestly functions; v. e. g. Lexikon für Theol. und Kirche V (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1960) 766); b (person’s condition of) being in breach of rule. 1198 nec nostre intentionis sit, quod dictus predecessor noster tante ~ati, nisi circumventus, auctoritatem prestiterit Ann. Burton 194; c1218 (v. dispensabilis 2); in hoc ‥ numero [sc. binario] bigamie ~as denotatur Gros. Hexaem. III 13. 1; 1472 ne ‥ aliquis ipsius professus ballivi vel forestarii officium quod ~ati vicinat ‥ exerceat Melrose 577.  b cum ordinarii timent ~atem et laici excommunicationem Bracton 136; s1378 querebatur a cancellario universitatis quare non punivit derisores regis. respondebat cancellarius quia timuit ~atem Eul. Hist. Cont. 349.