2. to cause (a person) to lose one's sense of direction; to cause to lose one's bearings or way; as, the tourist was disoriented by the winding and narrow streets. [ PJC ]

3. (Psychiatry) to cause one to lose one's sense of time or place, or of one's own personal identity. [ PJC ]

4. to confuse (a person) by changing or removing something which has served as a standard or guide to action; as, workers were rendered unemployed and disoriented by the rapid changes in the markets. [ PJC ]

2. socially disoriented; withdrawn from social interactions.
Syn. -- alienated, anomic. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Eastern; oriental. “The orient part.” Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. “Pearls round and orient.” Jer. Taylor. “Orient gems.” Wordsworth. “Orient liquor in a crystal glass.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Morn ] came furrowing all the orient into gold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The countries of Asia or the East. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Best built city throughout the Orient. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pearl of great luster. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To acquaint with new surroundings or a new situation. [ PJC ]

3. Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Same as Orientate, 2. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; specif. (Surv.), to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Eccl.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. London Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists. Sir J. Shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves. [ 1913 Webster ]

A crystal is orientated when placed in its proper position so as to exhibit its symmetry. E. S. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Same as orient{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

2. headed or intending to head in a certain direction; as, college-oriented students. Opposite of unoriented.
Syn. -- directed, minded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fig.): A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter. L. F. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The life reorient out of dust. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]