
1684 T. Burnet Th. Earth II. 109 Nature relapses hastily into that chaos-state. 1975 Li & Yorke in Amer. Math. Monthly LXXXII. 986 In this paper we analyze a situation in which the sequence {F n(x)} is non-periodic and might be called `chaotic’. Theorem 1 shows that chaotic behavior for (1.1) will result in any situation in which [etc.].
1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 164 Not a few..now swim weltering in the Chaos-flood.
1631 Donne Poems (1650) 36 Oft did we grow To be two Chaosses. 1730 Thomson Autumn 731 As when of old..Light uncollected thro’ the chaos urg’d Its infant way. 1837 Macaulay Bacon, Ess. (1854) I. 349 Opinions were still in a state of chaotic anarchy. 1858 De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. i. 28 note, The life..has been..chaotically mis-narrated. 1562 Eden Let. in 1st. Eng. Bks. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 44|1, I stilled of the water from the masse or Chaos lefte of them bothe. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Chaos, in the phrase of Paracelsus, imports the air. It has also some other significations amongst the alchemists. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. (1839) 99 The unformed matter of the world, was a god, by the name of Chaos.








