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uncoˈnnected, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. a. Not connected or associated with something.
1736Butler Anal. i. i. 13 There would be no apprehension that any other power or event unconnected with this of death would destroy these faculties. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 471 The colony of New Haven, though unconnected with the colony of Connecticut. 1842Sedgwick in Hudson's Guide Lakes (1843) 191 We find..great masses of alluvial drift, entirely unconnected with any erosion of the existing rivers. 1885Law Times 10 Jan. 183/1 A surveyor..who is entirely unconnected with the neighbourhood.
ellipt.1813Shelley Q. Mab iv. 74 This is no unconnected misery, Nor stands uncaused, and irretrievable.
b. Not physically joined with something.
1829T. Castle Introd. Bot. 150 The flowers have upwards of twenty-five stamens, all unconnected with the calyx.
2. Characterized by want of connexion.
1745Hume Let. from Gentleman (1967) 32 Suppose Mankind, in some primitive unconnected State [etc.]. 1762Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) V. 250 His epistles,..translated in a very bad style, and unconnected method. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 193 As the fashionable mode of unconnected composition is less improving to the mind of the reader. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge III. 249 His buildings are disposed in an unconnected manner about a quadrangular court.
3. Not joined together in order or sequence; disunited, isolated.
1777Richardson Pers. Dict. 1925 Incongruous, unconnected speech. 1791Boswell Johnson (1831) I. 180 Addison's note was a fiction, in which unconnected fragments of his lucubrations were purposely jumbled together. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 9 These short and unconnected sentences are easily and instantly understood. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 55, I simply record unconnected anecdotes and disjointed facts.
4. Not having personal connexions; not related by family ties, common aims, etc.
1802M. Edgeworth Moral T., A Summons, An individual in society who has friends..and a home, is in a more desirable situation than an unconnected being. 1822Byron Werner iv. i. 516, I could only guess at one, And he to me a stranger, unconnected. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. I. 40 But without this..what would become of the vapid, unmeaning, unconnected Lady P―? |