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▪ I. † disˈjunct, n. Sc. Latinized form of disjoint n.
1513[see disjoint n.]. ▪ II. disjunct, a. and n.|dɪsˈdʒʌŋkt| [ad. L. disjunct-us, pa. pple. of disjungĕre to disjoin. Cf. disjoint a.] A. adj. 1. a. Disjoined, disconnected, separated, separate, distinct; † distant. (Now rare exc. in technical senses: see also below.)
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 15 From the city of Norwich..it is sixteen miles disjunct. 1662Glanvill Lux Orient. vii. (R.) The divine.. freedome consists not in his acting by meer arbitrarious will, as disjunct from his other attributes. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 356/2 The Side Rest is a Rest disjunct from the Lathe. 1774M. Mackenzie Maritime Surv. p. xvi, A Disjunct Survey is, when the Harbours, Bays, or Islands..are each surveyed separately in a geometrical Manner. 1817N. Drake Shaks. I. 56, 3 quatrains with 2 verses of immediate, interposed between 2 verses of disjunct rhime, and a terminating couplet. 1890J. H. Stirling Philos. & Theol. iv. 60 That congeries of externalities, mere disjunct atoms. b. Entom. Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by deep incisions. †2. Math. (Opp. to conjunct a. 5): = discontinuous. disjunct proportion: a proportion in which the second and third terms have not the same ratio (or difference) as the first and second, or the third and fourth. Obs.
1594Blundevil Exerc. i. xviii. 42 Disiunct proportion Geometricall..is when there is not like proportion betwixt the second and the third, that is betwixt the first and the second, or betwixt the third and the fourth, as 3, 6, 4, 8. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. Annot. 1706[see discrete 2 b]. 3. Mus. (Opp. to conjunct a. 6.) d. tetrachords, tetrachords separated by an interval of a tone. d. motion, motion by intervals exceeding a degree of the scale.
1694W. Holder Harmony (1731) 97 Tetrachords..were either Conjunct, when they began the Second Tetrachord at the Fourth Chord..Or else the two Tetrachords were disjunct, the second taking its beginning at the Fifth Chord, there being always a Tone Major between the Fourth and Fifth Chords. 1774Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) I. i. 54 When the modulation passed from a conjunct to a disjunct tetrachord. 1879Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 88 He [Biordi] has used the diminished fourth in disjunct motion. 4. Logic, etc. †a. = disjunctive a. 2. Obs. b. = discrete a. 1 d. c. Applied to the several alternative members of a disjunctive proposition.
1608–11Bp. Hall Epist. ii. iii, Gregory the Third, writing to the Bishops of Bauaria, gives this disjunct charge: ‘Let none keepe an harlot or a concubine; but either let him liue chastely, or marry a wife.’ 1628T. Spencer Logick 300 A compound Syllogisme is then disiunct, when the proposition thereof is a disiunct axiome. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. viii. (1701) 312/1 A disjunct axiom is that which is disjoyned, by a disjunctive conjunction; as, either it is day, or it is night. 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic xii. (1860) I. 224 Notions co-ordinated in the quantity or whole of extension..are only relatively different (or diverse); and in logical language, are properly called Disjunct or Discrete Notions, (notiones dijunctæ, discretæ). 1864Bowen Logic vii. 218 The Subsumption is a Disjunctive of which these several Antecedents are the Disjunct Members. B. n. Logic. One of the components in a disjunctive proposition; also, a disjunctive proposition (see quot. 1948 and disjunctive a. 2).
1921W. E. Johnson Logic i. iii. 30 In the disjunctive function ‘Not-both p and q’, p and q are disjuncts. 1922― Ibid. ii. x. 211 We shall take..the implicants and disjuncts to stand for particular propositions. 1948H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic v. 194 We can regard the corresponding combination ‘F v G’ as one class, which is the disjunct of the classes ‘F’ and ‘G’. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic ii. 12 The two statements so combined are called disjuncts (or alternatives). 1962W. & M. Kneale Devel. Logic iii. 160 A disjunctive proposition..was said to involve a complete opposition..of its disjuncts. |