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<blockquote>Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and <b>disjoint</b> the brittle frame? <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; <as>as, <ex>disjointed</ex> columns; to <ex>disjoint</ex> and edifice.</as></def>

<blockquote>Some half-ruined wall <b>Disjointed</b> and about to fall. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; <as>as, a <ex>disjointed</ex> speech</as>.</def>

<h1>Disjoint</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*joint"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To fall in pieces.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Disjointed</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*joint"ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Dis*joint"ed*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Dis*joint"ed*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Disjointly</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*joint"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a disjointed state.</def>

<i>Sandys.</i>

<h1>Disjudication</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*ju`di*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Judgment; discrimination. See <er>Dijudication</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Boyle.</i>

<h1>Disjunct</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*junct"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>disjunctus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>disjungere</ets> to disjoin. See <er>Disjoin</er>, and cf. <er>Disjoint</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Disjoined; separated.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction.</def>

<cs><col>Disjunct tetrachords</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.</cd></cs>

<h1>Disjuncttion</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*junct"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>disjunctio</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; <as>as, the <ex>disjunction</ex> of soul and body</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A disjunctive proposition.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Disjunctive</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*junc"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>disjunctivus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>disjonctif</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.</def>