单词 | disruption |
释义 | disruptionn. 1. The action of rending or bursting asunder; violent dissolution of continuity; forcible severance. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] breachOE breakingc975 brusure1382 breaka1400 crasure1413 chininga1420 bursting1487 bruisinga1500 fraction?a1560 chinking1565 springingc1595 infraction1623 disruption1646 abruption1654 diruption1656 chapping1669 chopping1669 fracturea1676 rumple1746 breakage1775 disrupture1785 fracturing1830 disruptment1834 snapping1891 fractionation1926 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvi. 145 Theophrastus..conceiveth..that upon a full and plentifull impletion there may succeed a disruption of the matrix. View more context for this quotation 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 161 These great earthquakes and disruptions, that did such great execution upon the body of the earth. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 251 These pillars did not assume the columnar form by crystallization, but by disruption. 1816 M. A. Schimmelpenninck tr. C. Lancelot Narr. Tour Grande Chartreuse I. 10 At the sudden disruption of the masses of rock above. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > broken or burst condition brokenness1666 disruption1772 disrupture1785 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. 88 They..rend the earth, and at every shock leave it full of disruptions. 1872 C. M. Yonge Cameos cx, in Monthly Packet June 512 In the time of weakness and disruption. 1877 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 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’. ΚΠ 1843 R. S. Candlish Speech 30 Mar. in Life (1880) 293 All the people are concerned in making preparation for that disruption which is now inevitable. 1843 R. S. Candlish Speech 6 Sept. in Life (1880) 315 The Free Church, since the Disruption has in a wonderful manner kept herself free from..attacks on the existing Establishment. 1886 J. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1646 |
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