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Disunite v. t. (past & past part. disunited; pres. part. disuniting)

To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. "Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise... of all posterity!"

Disunite v. i. To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. "The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite."

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Etymology of 'Disunited'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disunited" Quotes from Famous Books

... Redford and his following. Already she saw the man whose career they counted finished, at the head of a new and greater party. There were plenty of clever men of the coming generation, plenty of room for compromises, for the formation of a great national party out of the scattered units of a disunited opposition. She believed Mannering strong enough to do this. She saw in it greater possibilities than might have been forthcoming even if he had been chosen to lead the somewhat ragged party represented by Lord Redford and his followers. For the rest, ...

— A Lost Leader • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... us turn to the event in our own lives that closes them; that death which, united to Christ's, is our entrance into liberty and, disunited, ...

— Paradoxes of Catholicism • Robert Hugh Benson

... weeks after the fatal day of Senlac, all resistance on the part of the disunited English, left without a recognised leader, became hopeless; and William was crowned on Christmas Day at Westminster Abbey, which on the previous feast of the Epiphany, in the same year, as we reckon time, had witnessed the coronation of his hapless rival. There he swore to be a just ruler ...

— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake

... The reason why concord makes small things thrive, while discord brings the greatest to ruin, is because "the more united a force is, the stronger it is, while the more disunited it is the weaker it becomes" (De Causis xvii). Hence it is evident that this is part of the proper effect of discord which is a disunion of wills, and in no way indicates that other vices arise from discord, as though it were ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... that the government of your own kingdom were bad, the people suffering and disunited and disloyal on account of their king's bad rule. What then should be done?" The king, looking this way and that, turned the ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

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