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/dɪsdʒˈɔɪnt/ Listen

noun

Disjoint n. Difficult situation; dilemma; strait. (Obs.) "I stand in such disjoint."

adjective

Disjoint adj. Disjointed; unconnected; opposed to conjoint.

verb

Disjoint v. t. (past & past part. disjointed; pres. part. disjointing)

To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. "Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?"

To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice. "Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall."

To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

Disjoint v. i. To fall in pieces.

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"Disjoint" Quotes from Famous Books

... frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That ...

— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... in him. The forces which impelled him to aim at the crown re-assert themselves. He faces the world, and his own conscience, desperate, but never dreaming of acknowledging defeat. He will see 'the frame of things disjoint' first. He challenges fate ...

— Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth • A. C. Bradley

... he now seized the young sailor by his collar; and, shaking him so roughly as nearly to disjoint his neck, he said with a ...

— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau

... that cankers on its point, True to the wind that kissed ere canker came; Despised by souls of Now, who would disjoint The mind from memory, and make Life ...

— Wessex Poems and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy

... was homeward Emily; Nor how Arcite is burnt to ashes cold; Nor how the lyke-wake* was y-hold *wake All thilke* night, nor how the Greekes play *that The wake-plays*, ne keep** I not to say: *funeral games **care Who wrestled best naked, with oil anoint, Nor who that bare him best *in no disjoint*. *in any contest* I will not tell eke how they all are gone Home to Athenes when the play is done; But shortly to the point now will I wend*, *come And maken of ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... frivolity and intemperance of Chiffinch—the suspicions of the melancholy and bigoted, yet sagacious and honest Bridgenorth. "Had I," he thought, "but tools fitted, each to their portion of the work, how easily could I heave asunder and disjoint the strength that opposes me! But with these frail and insufficient implements, I am in daily, hourly, momentary danger, that one lever or other gives way, and that the whole ruin recoils on my own head. And yet, were it not ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott