disjoint
verb
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L336139 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
- Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
“Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London”
- Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
- To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
“Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart”
“to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving”
- To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
“a disjointed speech”
- To fall into pieces.
“But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.”