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adjective

Disjointed adj. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.

verb

Disjoint v. t. (past & past part. disjointed; pres. part. disjointing)

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?"

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."

To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

Disjoint v. i. To fall in pieces.

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Etymology of 'Disjointed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disjointed" Quotes from Famous Books

... perhaps even more refined, and belonging, I fancy, to a higher class, tries when these friends come to us to play the part of the lady of the house. It is comical to see the entry of these ill-matched pairs, partners for a day, the ladies, with their disjointed bows, falling on all fours before Chrysantheme, the queen of the establishment. When we are all assembled, we set out, arm in arm, one behind another, and always carrying at the end of our short sticks little white or red paper lanterns; it is ...

— Madame Chrysantheme Complete • Pierre Loti

... eyebrows but her intestines, is a good current example. The novelist who shovels undistinguished humanity, just because it is human, into his book is another. The versifier who twists and breaks his rhythm solely in order to get new sounds is a third. A fourth is the stylist who writes in disjointed phrases and expletives, intended to represent the ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... over the roofs of these primitive dwellings, and an old woman, tranquilly seated on a ledge of projecting rock, supported solely by the thick straggling roots of the ivy which spreads itself over the disjointed stones, leisurely turns her spinning-wheel regardless of her dangerous position." The picture sketched by the author of La Comdie Humaine, some forty years ago, has scarcely changed at ...

— Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines • Henry Vizetelly

... one false teacher illustrates that of many others. A few words of Scripture are separated from the context, which would, in many cases, show their meaning to be exactly opposite to the interpretation put upon them; and such disjointed passages are perverted and used in proof of doctrines that have no foundation in the word of God. The testimony cited as evidence that the drunken Amnon is in heaven, is a mere inference, directly contradicted ...

— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... and crabs must have the cephalo-thorax (the upper part) disjointed from the body or "tail" part, the limbs taken off at their attachment to the body, and the whole of the flesh removed by means of the "undercutting tool" (see Fig. 29), and crooked wires; afterwards wash the inside ...

— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

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