单词 | unjointed |
释义 | unjointedadj.1 That has become or been made disjointed or disconnected; (of a body part, etc.) dislocated, out of joint. Also figurative. Cf. unjoint v. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > dislocated out of joint1393 dislocatec1400 unjoint?1541 unjointed1561 luxate1597 dislocated1605 luxated1634 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > disjoined, disunited, or disconnected disjointc1420 sejointc1440 dissolute?1541 unjointed1561 disunited1562 disjoined1591 disjunct1599 disjointeda1643 disunite1642 disjuncted1657 unmortised1736 broken1819 disarticulated1834 disc1916 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 54 In a ruine they sought for an vpright building, and for strong ioyntes in an vnioynted ouerthrow [L. in dissipatione]. 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 129 Shee is some what crooke backt, shee hath one shoulder vnioynted. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World Pref. sig. A The vnioynted and scattered frame of our English affaires. a1647 T. Hooker Surv. Summe Church-discipl. (1648) ii. ii. 38 As in an unjoynted body, or misplaced building, when any speciall part..is out of place, it brings a weakning..of the whole. 1753 R. P. Virtue Triumphant I. vii. 91 The doctor might perhaps have restored their unjointed limbs. 1836 New-Hampsh. Statesman 18 June We should have cried out for the Dr. to set an unjointed jaw. 1896 J. C. Harris Let. 25 Oct. in J. C. Harris Life & Lett. (1918) xix. 356 She was fooling with the stove-pipe in the hall yesterday, and it came unjointed in some way. 1919 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 23 Sept. 6/1 Larimer..is laid up with an unjointed knee, sustained in Saturday's practice. 2007 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 23 Aug. b8 Mr. Maliki's nose quickly came unjointed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unjointedadj.2 1. Esp. of discourse: consisting of separate or poorly-connected parts; disjointed, unconnected; incoherent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected unjointed1588 disjointed1593 checkie-wise1603 rambling1632 loose1638 unconnexed1716 disconnected1777 snipped1806 dot and go one1818 spasmodic1832 spotty1843 snippety1864 rantipole1866 splathering1929 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶4 Neyther himselfe can well vnderstand his vnioynted discourse, nor the hearers conceaue his vncohærent iangling. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 64 This bald vnioynted chat of his. View more context for this quotation a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 37 Their tedious unjoynted tales. 1687 Reflect. Hind. & Panther 35 To renew the old way of fighting with Sand-bags, the true Emblem of his unjoynted, incoherent Stuff. 1750 L. Jackson Reply to Dr. Middleton's Exam. 71 These unjointed Reveries, these wild Natives of a disordered Brain. 1840 John Bull 26 Sept. 465/3 The unjointed declamation of the modern school of actors. 1871 Boston Investigator 24 May 1/3 His [lecture] is rambling and disjointed—unjointed, rather. 1933 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 20 June 7/1 There the social economy of the pioneer days was the most unjointed. 2015 Hill (Nexis) 22 July 6 Due to unjointed laws and basic incompetence of the government, the U.S. has suffered a self-inflicted wound. 2. Chiefly Zoology. Not composed of joints or segments. Also: not connected by a joint or joints. ΚΠ 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xiv. xxxviii. 1271 The leaves of this small Rush grasse are many, growing thicke together, and as fine almost as haires or threds, among which rise up sundry slender unjoynted stalkes. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. ii. 161 Upon his Shoulders he hath two immovable or unjoynted Horns. 1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 7 The columns..are of the simple, or unjointed species. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 520 A short, tapering, unjointed bristle. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 183 They may be simple, unjointed, firm, bony spines. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xxi. 319 These appendages [sc. pleopods] are generally present, and consist of a two-jointed stem and two unjointed branches. 1930 A. M. Marshall et al. Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) ix. 143 The body of the crayfish is very obviously divisible into an anterior unjointed portion, the cephalothorax, and a jointed and flexible hinder portion, the abdomen. 1959 T. T. Macan Guide Freshwater Invertebr. Animals 84 Some larvae have unjointed projections from the body known as ‘prolegs’. 2013 G. R. McGhee When Invasion Land Failed iii. 58 The little, knob-like legs are arranged in two rows on the ventral side of the worm and are unjointed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.11561adj.21588 |
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