disjoint

comparative more disjoint · superlative most disjoint

1. Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.

   Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London

   1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109

2. not comparablemathematicsOf two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
3. not comparablealgebraOf two or more elements in a lattice, having a meet equal to the bottom element.

present singular third person disjoints · participle present disjointing · participle past disjointed · past disjointed

1. To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.

   Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart

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   to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving

   Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame.

   1719, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma”, in Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: J. Hyde, page 163

   As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place.

   1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1872, page 543

   Synonyms: disarticulate, unjoin, disassemble, take apart · Antonyms: rejoint, rearticulate

2. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.

   a disjointed speech

3. obsoleteTo fall into pieces.

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   But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2