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disruption|dɪsˈrʌpʃən|
[ad. L. disruptiōn-em (dīruptiōn-em), n. of action from disrumpĕre to burst or break asunder.]
1. The action of rending or bursting asunder; violent dissolution of continuity; forcible severance.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xvi. 145 Theophrastus..conceiveth..that upon a full and plentifull impletion there may succeed a disruption of the matrix. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 161 These great earthquakes and disruptions, that did such great execution upon the body of the earth. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 251 These pillars did not assume the columnar form by crystallization, but by disruption. 1816Miss Schimmelpenninck tr. Tour La Grande Chartreuse I. 10 At the sudden disruption of the masses of rock above. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxiii. 601 On the final disruption of Guienne from the English crown.
2. A disrupted condition; a disrupted part or place, a rent.
1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) II. 88 They..rend the earth, and at every shock leave it full of disruptions. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) III. xxv. 233 In the time of weakness and disruption. 1877Morley Crit. Misc., Carlyle Ser. i. (1878) 199 The whole polity of Europe was left in such a condition of disruption as had not [etc.].
3. spec. the Disruption: the name applied to the great split in the Established Church of Scotland, 18th May 1843, when 451 ministers left that Church and formed themselves into the Free Protesting (afterwards, simply, the Free) Church of Scotland.
The cause of their separation was the failure of the Church to maintain its complete independence in matters spiritual as against the interference of the Civil Courts (Court of Session), for which the Evangelical party had carried on a ‘Ten Years' Conflict’ against the ‘Moderates’.
1843Candlish Speech 30 Mar. in Life (1880) 293 All the people are concerned in making preparation for that disruption which is now inevitable. Ibid. 6 Sept. 315 The Free Church, since the Disruption has in a wonderful manner kept herself free from..attacks on the existing Establishment. 1886J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 167/1 The standing outside the Establishment for a quarter of a century has much weakened the adherence..to the original views maintained at the Disruption.
attrib.1871J. Mackenzie Life Princ. Cunningham xv. 192 The same contented cheerfulness dwelt in the poor abode of every Disruption minister. Ibid. 195 Dr. Cunningham visited this district in November of the Disruption year. |