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▪ I. disjoin, v.|dɪsˈdʒɔɪn|
Also 5 des-.
[ME. des-, disioyne, a. OF. desjoign-, pres. stem of desjoindre, mod.F. déjoindre = Pr. desjonher, It. disgiugnere:—L. disjungĕre, f. dis- 4 + jungĕre to join.]
1. trans. To undo the joining of; to put or keep asunder; to disunite, separate, sunder, part, sever:
a. persons, places, things, actions, etc.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 257/4 We wold haue disioyned yow and haue drowned yow. 1484― Curiall 1, I am there where the places and affayres desioyne vs. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. xxxii, The smell and tasting partly conjoyned be, And part disjoyned. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 212 Deserts and..mountaines disjoyning the provinces. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 149 The first Intention..is performed by restoring the bones disjoyned. c1694Prior Celia to Damon 114 Shall neither time, nor age our souls disjoin? 1864A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 134 The two parishes were disjoined in 1642.
absol.1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 283 It is the nature of this enemy of mankind to scatter, to disioyne and separat. a1683Oldham Wks. & Rem. (1686) 122 That cruel word for ever must disjoyn, Nor can I hope, but thus, to have him mine.
b. one thing, person, action, etc. (from another).
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cc. (R.) They sayde, they wolde not disioyne nor disceuer them from the crowne. 1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. ii. lviii. (1591) 87 Spaine being disioyned from it [Africa] by a narrow strayte. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 18 Th' abuse of Greatnesse, is, when it disioynes Remorse from Power. 1741Middleton Cicero I. iv. 271 Our knights are now almost disjoined again from the Senate. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. (1875) 77 [He] never disjoins banter itself from politeness.
†2. To separate into parts or sections; to disjoint.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 367 Although M. Heskins hath disioyned this place..I haue set it down..entire. 1598Florio, Slombare..to disioyne as a butcher doth a sheepe. 1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 134 Latine phrases which cannot fitly be disjoyned are to be taken together.
3. To sunder, dissolve, break up (a state or condition of union); to undo, unfasten (a knot or tie).
1633Marmion Fine Companion i. v, Knots of compliment, which the least occasion disjoins. 1643Milton Divorce viii. (1851) 42 That mariage therfore God himself dis-joyns. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. ii. 70 Their short Embraces some rude Shocks disjoyn. 1738Glover Leonidas v. 617 All with headlong pace..Disjoin their order.
†4. fig. To put out of joint, unhinge. Obs. rare.
a1633S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. i. xvi. §2 (1670) 62 Gallus Vibius..so dislodged and dis-joyned his own judgment, that he could never settle it again.
5. intr. (for refl.) To separate or sever oneself from a state of union or attachment; to part, become separate:
a. said of two or more.
1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 167 If one of them die, that Action shall survive, for though they were joynt in the personalty, yet they disjoyned in the realty. 1699Garth Dispens. iii. (1706) 42 So Lines that from their Parallel decline, More they advance, the more they still dis-join. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1765) 268 They, hopeless now..disjoined, and one of them fled the country.
b. said of one thing parting from another.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 541 Till breathlesse he disioynd, and backward drew. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 90 Being of clammy nature, it disjoyneth not, but sticketh fast.
Hence disˈjoining vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1530Palsgr. 214/2 Disjoynyng, disjunction. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 21 Two not farre disioyning vallies. a1643W. Cartwright Lady Errant iv. iv, This disjoyning Of bodies only is to knit your hearts. 1741A. Monro Anat. (ed. 3) 192 They may..yield to a disjoining Force. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 26 The meeting or disjoining of natures.
▪ II. disjoin
obs. f. disjune, Sc., breakfast. |