abjunctive

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/æbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/

adjective

Exceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectiveabjunctive (comparative more abjunctive, superlative most abjunctive)

comparative more abjunctive · superlative most abjunctive

  1. rareExceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,

    The therapeutic programs provided include chemotherapy, electroshock, Individual, group and family psychotherapy, abjunctive therapy, medical and nursing

    1973, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, U.S. G.P.O, page 268
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    It is this power which leads on always from the less perfect, towards the more perfect; — from the accidental and abjunctive, to the universal ; or from […]

    1883, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, J.P. Haven, page 270

    The authors present their experience concerning 47 patients: 27 were surgical treated with subcutaneous subtotal mastectomy and 18 had an abjunctive liposuction treatment with good results.

    1996, Cianchetti E, Legnini M, Ucchino S, Ricci A, Scipione P, Grossi S, Scotti U, Napolitano L, “Gynecomastia (report)”, in Annali italiani di chirurgia, page 499

Origin

  1. Latinabiūnctus
  2. Englishabjunctive

From Latin abiūnctus, past participle of abiungō (“remove, separate”); from ab (“of, from, by”) + iungō (“join, connect, attach”).

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Chicago

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