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Disjoint   /dɪsdʒˈɔɪnt/   Listen
noun
Disjoint  n.  Difficult situation; dilemma; strait. (Obs.) "I stand in such disjoint."



adjective
Disjoint  adj.  Disjointed; unconnected; opposed to conjoint.



verb
Disjoint  v. t.  (past & past part. disjointed; pres. part. disjointing)  
1.
To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. "Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?"
2.
To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice. "Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall."
3.
To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.



Disjoint  v. i.  To fall in pieces.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Disjoint" Quotes from Famous Books



... poetry, so, on the other hand, in his poems, his diction is, wherever his subject requires it, so sublimely and so truly poetical, that its essence, like that of pure gold, cannot be destroyed. Take his verses and divest them of their rhymes, disjoint them in their numbers, transpose their expressions, make what arrangement and disposition you please of his words, yet shall there eternally be poetry, and something which will be found incapable of being ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott

... ears, growling and grunting, tugging at each other's brushes, and in general behaving just as healthy, happy fox-cubs might be expected to behave; while the patient, careful mother looked on approvingly—save when, uniting in one strong effort, they endeavoured to disjoint her tail by pulling it over her back—and smiled, as only a fox can smile, with eyes asquint and a single out-turned fang showing white beside ...
— Creatures of the Night - A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain • Alfred W. Rees

... vessel of his peace. The 'will to live' is mighty in him. The forces which impelled him to aim at the crown re-assert themselves. He faces the world, and his own conscience, desperate, but never dreaming of acknowledging defeat. He will see 'the frame of things disjoint' first. He challenges fate into ...
— Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth • A. C. Bradley

... supremacy of the Scriptures; to another the right of private judgment, the duty of the individual conscience. Unite these all, and then you have the Reformation one—one in spite of manifoldness; those very varieties by which they have approached this proving them to be one. Disjoint them and then you have some miserable sect—Calvinism, or Unitarianism; the unity has dispersed. And so again with the unity of the Churches. Whereby would we produce unity? Would we force on other Churches our Anglicanism? Would we have our thirty-nine articles, ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson



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